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Rev. Daniel  S.Butriok 
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The  Missionary  Herald,'  January,  1824. 


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Vol.  XX. 


JANUARY   1S24. 


No.  1. 


VIEW  OF  Tx4E  MISSIONS  UNDER    THE   DIRECTION  OF    THE    AMERICAN 
BOARD  OF  COMMISSIONERS  FOR  FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 


lA'TRODUCTORY    RE3IARKS. 


The  following  survey  is  designed  to  give  a  brief  view  of  the  present 
state  of  the  missions  under  the  direction  of  the  American  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions.  We  designed  to  have  introduced  it  by  a  general, 
though  brief,  account  of  the  missions  under  the  direction  of  other  soci- 
eties in  this  country  and  in  Europe:  but  numerous  avocations  have 
withheld  the  requisite  leisure.  It  forms,  we  conceive,  a  very  proper 
introduction  to  a  new  volume  and  a  new  year,  and  will  exhibit  an  ex- 
tensive field  occupied  by  the  benevolence  of  the  American  churches. 


Prudential  Commilfee. 

Hon.  WiLMAM  Reed, 
Rev.  Leonard  Woods,  D.  D, 
Jeremiah  Evarts,  Esq. 
Hon.  Samuel  Hubbard,  and 
Rev.  Warren  Fay. 

Corrtspnnding  Secretary. 
Jeremiah  Evarts,  Esq. 

Assistant  Stcrclary. 
]Mr.  RuFus  Anderson. 

Treasurer. 
Henry  Hill,  Esq. 

Jludilor. 
Chester  Adams,  Esq. 

The  executive  business  of  the  Board  is 
transacted  at  the  Missionary  Rooms,  No. 
G9,  Market  Street,  Boston,  Mass.,  which 
are  daily  ojien  during  the  regular  liours  of 
business. 


Tlie  D-'iard  has  established  missions,  in 
the  order  of  lime  in  which  they  will  now 
lie  named,  *i(  Bombay — in  Ceylon, — aii'ong 
the  ChtTokves,  Choctaws,  and  Cher'<l:eps 
of  the  Arkansaw — at  (he  Snndwifl:  isirfuds 
VOL.    XX. 


— and  in  Western  Asia.  It  has,  also, 
taken  measures  to  ascertain  the  religious 
and  moral  state  of  the  soutiiern  and  west- 
ern countries  of  South  America^  wil!i  a 
view  to  missionary  labors  in  that  iulorest- 
ing  part  of  the  world. 

I.     Mission  at  Bombay. 

Commenced  in  1813.     TJiis  mission  has 
three  stations. — Bombay,  Mahim,  and  Tan- 


Bombay. — A  large  city  on  an  island  of 
the  same  name.  It  is  the  capital  of  all  the 
British  possessions  on  the  western  side  of 
the  peninsula,  and  is  the  primar}'  seat  of 
the  mi>:sion. 

Rev.  Gordon  Hall,  Missionary;  Mr. 
James  Garrett,  Printer. 

Mabim. — Six  miles  from  Borabaj'",  on 
the  north  pait  of  the  island. 

Rev.  Allen  Graves,  Missionary. 

Tannah. — The  principal  town  on  the 
island  of  Salsette,  twenty-five  miles  from 
Bombay. 

Rev.  John  Nichols,  Missionary. 

The  first  missionaries  to  Bombay  embarked  nearly 

t^.elve  years  api..      Some  tiine  elapsed  before  they 

vci-L-  fairly  settled  at  Bombay,  and  !>oine  fiirtlier  time, 

b;f..'e  tli.y  acquired  llie  lanjuag-e;  !io  that,  up  to  the 

(lat  •  of  tli:-ir  last  commonicatiuns.  we  have  accounts  of 

lutle  more  thill  tij^ht  ytnvs  of  tflTcCtive  service.     Biit, 

:liiriiig  this  time,  they  have  tiaTisJated  most  of  the  New 

Testament  into  the  Mahintta  hinj^uaKe,  spoken  by  at 

'  least  12,000,00(1  of  i)00|,le.  and  have  printed  a  consider- 

I  r.ble  ivnt  of  it;  liave  urnsiMted   portions  of  the  Old 

Tt'staiiient,  and  priuteQ  the  book  of  Genesis;  and  tliey 

'will   b^'  ab>  ui  print  the  whole  Bible  soon,  if  funds  are 

I 


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Survey  of  Missionary  Stations. 


Jak, 


obtained.  They  have  printed  more  than  30,0CO  books 
and  tracts,  most  of  which  have  been  circulated  among 
the  natives,' and  have  been  read,  piobably,  by  several 
hundred  thousands.  They  have  under  tlieir  care 
eighteen  schools,  containing  about  QOOpupils;  and,  not 
long  since,  they  had  twenty-five  schools,  containing 
1,200  pupils,  but  were  obliged  to  discontinue  several, 
lor  want  of  pecuuiarj'  means  to  support  them.  In  va- 
rious ways,  they  are  daily  extending  the  circle  of  their 
acquaintance  anu  influence  among  the  natives. 

Poi  a  long  time,  a  Mission  Chapel  has  been  needed. 
More  than  a  j  ear  ago,  the  foundations  of  one  were  laid, 
and,  during  the  last  summer,  the  building,  which  is  60 
feet  by  35,  was  probaUly  completed. 

Should  it  please  God  to  give  success  to  the  plans  of 
the  missionaries,  a  Mission  College  will  soon  be  very 
desirable. 

On  th'.-  27th  of  September  last,  the  Rev.  Edmund 
Frost,  Missionary,  with  his  w  ife,  and  Mrs.  Graves,  the 
wife  of  the  raissionai')  at  Maliim,  embarked  for  Calcut- 
ta, w  hence,  by  leave  of  Providence,  they  will  proceed 
immediately  to  Bombay. 


II.     Mission-  ijv  Ceylon, 

This  mission  was  established  in  the  dis- 
trict of  Jaffna,  which  is  in  the  northern  ex- 
tremity of  the  island  of  Ceylon,  in  October 
1816.  It  has  five  stations,— Tillipally, 
Batticotta,  Oodooville,  Panditeripo,  and 
Manepy. 


Tillipally. — Nine  miles  north  from 
Jafinapatam. 

Rev.  Daniel  Poor,  Missionary;  Nicholas 
Permander,  J^alive  Preacher. 

Batticotta. — Six  miles  north-west  of 
Jaffnapatam. 

Rev.  Benjamin  C.  Meigs,  and  Rev. 
Henry  Woodward,  Missionaries.  Gabriel 
Tissera,  JS^atire  Preacher. 

Oodooville. — Five  miles  north  of  Jaff- 
napatam. 

Rev.  MiTonW'mslow,  Missionary.  Fran- 
cis Malleappa,  jYative  Preacher. 

Panditeripo. — Nine  miles  north-west 
of  JafTnapatam. 

Rev.  John  Scndder,  ]\I.  D.  Missionary. 
George  Koch,  J^ative  Medical  Assistant. 

Manepy. — Four  miles  and  a  half  north- 
west of  Jaffnapatam. 

Rev.  Levi  Spaulding,  Missionary. 

The  original  missionaries  from  this  eountrj-  to  Cey- 
lon, were  four  in  number,— the  Rtv.  Messrs.  Warren, 
Richards,  Meigs  and  Poor.  The  two  first  named  have 
rested  from  their  labore.  At  the  date  of  the  last  intelli- 
gence, Messi-s.  Meigs  and  Poor  had  been  laboring,  w  ith 
a  competent  knowledge  of  the  language,  but  little  more 
than  hve  years;  and  the  others  above  named,  less  than 
three  years.  V^et  they  have  procured,  to  be  boarded  and 
educated  in  theii-  families,  and  under  their  entire  con- 
trol lis  heathen  youths,  who  are  suppoited,  and  to 
w  hom  names  have  been  given,  by  individuals  and  so- 
cieties in  this  country.  They  have  also  established 
thlrty-tivo  free-scheols,  containing  more  than  1,500 
scholars;  have  admitted  into  their  clnirch  seventeen 
converted  natives;  and,  by  means  of  their  schools,  and 
tracts,  and  conversations, and  pleaching,  are  constant- 
ly exerting  a  powerful  influence  on  a  considerable 
population,  most  of  which  is  composed  of  the  higher 
easts.    Nine  young  men,  members  of  the  ehurchli'aie 


very  useful  assistants,  three  of  w  hom  have  been  licens- 
ed to  prt^aeh  the  Gospel.  One  of  these  licentiates  pos- 
sesses \  try  superior  talents.  Others  of  the  scholars,  not 
belonging  lo  the  church,  are  hopefully  pious;  others 
are  seriously  disposed;  and  verj'  many,  not  particularly 
serious,  aie  of  good  promise. 

It  is  ijuite  indispensable  to  the  ultimate  success  of 
the  mission,  that  a  Native  College  be  soon  established. 

III.     Mission  among  the  Cherokees. 

On  the  13th  of  January  1817,  Mr.  Kings- 
bury arrived  at  Chickamaugah,  since  call- 
ed Brainerd,  and  commenced  preparations 
for  an  establishrceiit  there.  Tiie  mission 
among  the  Cherokees  has,  at  the  present 
time,  six  stations, — Brainerd,  Creek- 
Path,  Carmel,  Hightower,  Willstown,  and 
Haweis. 

Brainerd. — The  oldest  station  of  the 
Board  among  the  Indians.  It  is  situated 
within  the  chartered  limits  of  Tennessee, 
on  the  Chickamaugah  creek,  250  miles 
N.  W.  of  Augusta;  foO  3.  E.  of  Nashville; 
and  110  S.  VV.  of  Knoxvilie. 

Rev.  Ard  Hoyt,  Missionary;  Dr.  Elizur 
Butler,  Physician;  Mr.  Sylvester  Ellis, 
I  Schoolmaster;  Messrs.  John  Vail,  Henry- 
Parker,  and  Frederick  Elsworth,  Farmers; 
Messrs.  Erastus  Dean,  and  Aiusworth  E, 
Blunt,  Mechanics. 

I  Carmel. — Formerly  called  Taloney. 
Sixty-two  miles  S.  E.  from  Brainerd,  on 
what  is  called  the  Federal  Road.  A  school 
was  established  here  in  May  1820.  Mr. 
Hall  resided  here  six  months  before  the 
opening  of  the  school. 

Rev.  Daniel  S.  Butrick,  Missionary, 
and  Mr.  Moody  Hall,  Schoolmaster. 

Creek-Path. — One  hundred  miles  W. 
S.  VV.  of  Brainerd.  A  school  was  estab- 
lished here  in  April  1820. 

Rev.  William  Potter,  Missionary. 

Hightower. — On  a  river  named  E- 
tow-ee,  but  corrupted  into  Hightower; 
eight}'  miles  S.  S.  E.  of  Brainerd,  and 
thirty-five  miles  west  of  south  from  Carmel. 
A  school  commenced  in  April  of  the  pres- 
ent year. 

iMr.  Isaac  Procter,  Schoolmaster. 

Willstown. — About  fifty  miles  S.  W. 
of  Brainerd.  A  school  was  established  at 
this  station,  in  May  last. 

Rev.  William  Chamberlain,  Missionary. 

Haweis. — About  sixty  miles  S.  of  Brai- 
nerd. Preparations  are  making  for  a 
school. 

Mr.  John  C.  Elsworth,  Schoolmaster. 

IV.     Mission  amonc;  the  Choctaavs. 
The  mission  among  the  Clieroke«s  beinc 


1824. 


Smt'cy  of  Missionary  Stations, 


in  successful  operation,  Mr.  Kingsbury  and  i 
Mr.  Williams  left  Brainerd,  about  the  first 
of  June  1818,  for  the  Chortaw  nation. 
They  selected  a  site  for  their  station,  and 
about  the  15th  of  August  felled  the  first 
tree.  "The  place  was  entirely  new,  and 
covered  with  lofty  trees;  but  the  ancient 
mounds,  which  here  and  there  appeared, 
shewed,  that  it  had  been  once  the  habita- 
tion of  raen.^'  The  station  was  named 
Elliot,  in  honor  of  the  '-Apostle  of  the 
American  Indians."  This  mission  has  six 
stations.— Elliot,  Mayhew,  Bethel,  Em- 
maus,  and  two  which  have  not  yet  receiv- 
ed names. 

Elmot. — Within  the  chartered  limits  of 
the  state  of  Mississippi;  on  the  Yalo  Busha 
f'reek;  about  forty  miles  above  its  junction 
with  the  Yazoo;  400  miles  W.  S.  W.  of 
Brainerd;  and  145  from  the  Walnut  Hills, 
on  the  Mississippi. 

Mr.  Cyrus  Byington,  Licensed  Preacher 
and  Missionary;  Dr.  Wm.  W.  Pride, 
Physician;  Mr.  Joel  Wood,  Schoolmaster ; 
and  Messrs.  John  Smith,  and  Zechariah 
Howes,  Farmers. 

Mayhew. — On  the  Ook-tib-be-ha  creek, 
twelve  miles  above  its  junction  with  the 
Tombigbee,  and  100  miles  E.  of  Elliot. 
Commenced  in  the  spring  of  1820. 

Rev.  Cyrus  Kingsbury,  Missionary  and 
Superintendent  of  the  Choctaw  Mission; 
Mr.  William  Hooper,  Schoolmaster;  Mr. 
Calvin  Cushraan,  Farmer;  and  Messrs. 
Philo  P.  Stewart  and  Samuel  Wisner, 
Mechanics. 

Bethel. — On  the  Natchez  road,  south- 
west of  Mayhew.  A  school  was  establish- 
ed liere  in  November  1821. 

Mr.  Loring  S.  Williams,  Schoolmaster. 

Mr.  Stephen  B.  Macomber,  Schoolmas- 
ter, resides  here  for  the  present. 

Emmaus. — About  140  miles  south-east- 
erly from  Mayhew.  Commenced  near 
the  latter  part  of  1822. 

Mr.  Moses  Jewell,  Schoolmaster.,  and 
Mr.  Anson  Gleason,  Mechanic. 

Mr.  Elijah  Bardwell,  Farmer.,  and  Mr. 
Anson  Dyer,  Schoolmaster,  commenced 
preparations  for  a  school  near  the  centre 
of  the  Six  Towns,  during  the  summer 
past. 

Rev.  Alfred  Wriglit,  Missionary,  resides 
in  this  district. 

Mr.  Adin  C.  Gibbs,  Schoolmaster,  has, 
■  dso,  commenced  a  school,  recently,  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Mingo  Moo-sha-la-tubbee, 
ui  the  S.  E,  District  of  the  nation. 

"\Tr.  Samuel  Moseley,  Licensed  Preacher 


and  Missionary;  Messr';.  David  Wright 
and  Da\'id  Gage,  Schoolmasters;  Messrs. 
William  Holland  and  Josinh  Hemraingwaj', 
Farmers;  and  Mr.  Ebenezer  Bliss,  Me- 
chanic; are  on  their  way  to  Brainerd, 
where  they  will  receive  such  an  ultimate 
destinatiou,  as  shall  appear  to  he  best  when 
the  Corresponding  Secretary  shall  arrive 
there,  on  his  contemplated  visit  to  the 
stations  situated  on  this  side  the  Missis- 
sippi. 


V.     Mission    among   the   Cherokefs 

01'    THE    ARKANSAW. 

Commenced  in  the  year  1820.  Tlicre 
is  only  the  station  of 

DwiGHT. — On  the  west  side  of  Illinois 
creek;  four  miles  north  of  the  Arkansaw 
river;  and  500  miles  from  the  junction  o( 
the  Arkansaw  wilh  the  Mississippi,  follow- 
ing the  course  of  the  river. 

Rev.  Alfred  Finney  and  Rev.  Cephas 
Washburn,  MissLonaries;  and  Messrs.  Ja- 
cob Hitchcock,  and  James  Orr,  Farmers. 

Mr.  Asa  Hitchcock,  Mechanic,  is  on  hia 
way  to  join  this  mission. 

Ptemarks  on  the  Indian  Missions. 

Among  the  Imliiins,  the  Board  has  thirteen  station?. 
At  >^even  of  thtse  stations,  churches  have  been  organ- 
izled.  About  sixty  Indians  and  blacks  have  been  re- 
ceived into  these  churches;  and  there  are  several,  at 
ahuost  every  station,  who  are  seriously  disposed.  With 
the  Moravian  church,  in  the  Cherokee  nation,  about 
thirty  Indians  are  connected.  From  Uie  missionaries 
of  the  Board,  more  than  500  Indian  children  and 
youth  have  received  the  rudiments  of  a  Clirisiian  edu- 
cation, and  thousands  of  adults  have  heard  the  Gos- 
pel. 

The  Indians  live  principally  in  >il!a,a,Ps,  preat  num- 
bers of  v\hieh  are  scattered  through  the  wilderness; 
and  at  most,  if  not  all,  of  these  viliages,  they  would  re- 
ceive Christian  preachers  with  kindness,  and  w  oiild  at- 
tend respectful!)-  on  the  public  worship  of  God.  They 
have  made  greater  progress,  within  a  few  years,  in  civ- 
ilization, and  in  preparation  for  receivingthe  means  of 
grace,  than  is  generally  supposed.  The  Ch-'rokees, 
especially,  have  couits,  court-houses,  judges,  and  a 
police;  and  luany  of  them  possess  comfortable  houses, 
cattle,  and  cultivated  fields. 

The  object  of  the  Board  is,  to  place  schoolmasters 
and  evangelists  in  every  distiict,  who  shall  ])efform  tlie 
same  labors,  and  exert  the  same  kind  of  influence,  as 
the  village  schoolmaster  and  parish  minister  in  New 
England.  And  the  time  may  not  be  far  distant,  when, 
from  almost  ever)  hill  in  the  Indian  country,  shall  be 
seen  the  spires  of  churches,  overtopping  the  v\ilderness, 
and  imparting  a  religious  and  jileasing  aspect  to  the 
w  hole  landscape. 


VI.  Mission  at  the  Sandwich  Islands. 

Established  in  April  1820.  The  prin- 
cipal  station  is  Hanaroorah,  on  (he  island 
of  Woalioo.  Anotlter  station  is  at  'Wymui, 
on  the  i.^land  of  Atooi.  The  present  dis- 
tribution of  laborers  is  not  yet  known,  as 
intelligence  has  not  been  received  of  the 
arrival  of  the  reinforcement,  which  em- 
barked at  New  llaveu  near  the  close  of 
last  year. 


Survey  of  Missionary  Sialions. 


J  AX. 


Rev.  Hiram  Bingham,  R.ev.  AsaThurs-n 
ton,  Rev.  Williaon  Richards,  Rev.  Charles 
S.  Stewart,  and  Rev.  Artemas  Bishop, 
Missionaries;  Dr.  Abraham  Elatchel}', 
Physician;  Messrs.  Samuel  Whitney, 
Joseph  Goodrich,  and  James  Ely,  Licensed 
Prtachers  and  Assistant  Missionaries;  Mr. 
Levi  Chaniberlain,  Superinlendent  of  Sec- 
ular Concerns;  Mr.  Elisha  Loomis,  Prin- 
ter; and  Thomas  Hopoo,  John  lionooree, 
and  George  Sandwich,  JS'ali-ue  Assistants. 

This  mission,  the  third  anniveisaiy  of  which  was  in 
April  last,  has  been  attended,  probably,  with  more  re- 
markable interpositions  of  Providence,  for  the  time  of 
its  existence,  than  any  other  misiiou  on  record.  Its 
prospects  of  ultimate,  if  not  of  speedy,  success,  are 
most  cheering.  Almost  all  the  piincipal  men  of  the 
islands,  v.i'.hmany  of  the  common  people,  attend  on  the 
instructions  of  the  missiouavies.  Atthe  last  dates,  theli' 
congregation  on  the  Sabbath  consisted  of  more  than 
1,000  persons. 

The  Rev.  William  Ellis,  Miisionai-ij,  is  not  named 
in  tlie  abo^  e  list,  because,  though  he  labors  in  close  eori- 
iiexion  w  ith  tlie  missionaries  of  the  Board,  he  is  undei- 
the  patronage  of  the  London  Missionai-y  Society ,  and  '  j 
is  regarded  as  a  missionaiy  of  that  institution.  The  1 1 
same  is  true  of  Auna,an  Assistant  Missionanj  from  the 
Society  Islands. 


VII.     Mission  to  Western  Asia. 

Commenced  in  1820.  At  present,  part 
of  the  missionaries  reside  at  Malta,  and 
part  at  Jerusalem. 

Malta. — Rev.  Daniel  Temple,  Rev. 
WiHi.'un  Goodell,  and  Rev.  Isaac  Bird, 
Missiojiaries. 


Jerusaleivi. — Rev.    Pliny    Fisk, 
Rev.  Jonas  Kinjr,  Missionaries. 


and 


The  missionaries  at  Malta,  have  under  thtir  care  the 
"Printing  Establishment,  for  the  support  of  which  cer- 


tain persons  in  Boston  and  elsewhere  are  under  engage- 
ments to  pay  ^3,000  annually  for  five  years,— in  all 
15,000.  A  number  of  valuable  tracts  have  been  print- 
ed, both  in  Romaic  or  Modern  Greek,  and  Italian,  nu- 
merous copies  of  which  are  now  circulating  and  read  in 
several  of  the  countries  bordering  on  the  Mediterrai:ean. 
— In  April  last,  Messrs.  Fisk  and  King  took  up  their  resi- 
dence at  Jerusalem,  where  they  find  many  opportuni- 
ties for  promoting  the  great  object  of  dieir  mission. 

Mr.  Pai-sons,— now  ne  trust  an  inhabitant  of  the 
heavt!nly  Jerusalem,— visited  tliis  city  tw  o  years  before. 
It  has  been  remarked  as  a  singular  fact  illusti-ating  the 
wonderful  moral  revol  utious  which  diversify  the  history 
of  man,  that  the  first  Protestant  missionary  to  Jerusa- 
lem w  ent  from  a  land  of  which  the  Apostles  had  no 
knowledge.  And,  at  present,  the  only  Prottstai.t  mis- 
sionaiies  in  the  cit)'  of  David,  nre  two  from  this  samo 
land  uiiknowii  to  the  apostles,  in  company  with  a 
Christian  descendant  of  Abraham. 


VIII.     South  America. 

On  the  25th  of  July  last,  Mr.  John  C, 
Brigham  and  Mr.  Theophilus  Parvin, — the 
former  from  the  Theological  Seminary  in 
Andover,  and  the  latter  from  the  Theolog- 
ical Seminary  in  Princeton, — sailed  from 
Boston  for  Buenos  Ayres.  Their  object  is, 
to  circulate  Bibles  and  Tracts,  and  to  ascer- 
tain the  religions  and  moral  state  of  the 
interesting  countries,  in  the  southern  and 
western  parts  of  that  continent. 

IX.     Foreign    Mission  School. 

Situated  in  Cornwall,  Con.  Established 
in  1816. 

Rev.  Herman  Daggett,  Principal^  and 
Mr.  John  H.  Prentice,  Assistant. 


About  sixty  different  heathen  youths,  from  various 
nations,  have  enjoyed  its  privileges  at  various  times. 
Of  these  youths,  nearly,  if  not  quite,  half,  became  hope- 
fully pious  at  Cornwall.  At  present,  the  school  has 
thirty-five  members. 


SUMMARY. 


In  the  above  survey  are  the  names  of  eighty-one  persons,  of  whom 
twenty-nine  are  ordained  ministers  of  the  Gospel,  and  ten  are  licensed 
preachers.  Besides  these,  there  are  about  sixt5'-five  females,  a  few  of 
whom  are  single  women,  but  most  are  wives  of  the  missionaries. 

The  sum  of  the  whole  is  briefly  this: — The  Board  employs  among 
the  heathen  not  less  than  one  hundred  and  forty-six  competent  adult 
persons,  of  whom  more  than  one  quarter  part  are  preachers  of  the 
Gospel  It  has  established  these  laborers  in  twenty-five  different  sta- 
tions; in  six  or  eight  different  nations,  speaking  as  many  different  lan- 
guages, and  comprising  many  millions  of  people.  It  has  translated  a 
considerable  part  of  the  Bible,  and  is  now  printing  it  in  the  language 
of  a  numerous  population.  It  has  organized  ten  Christian  churches  in 
the  midst  of  Pagan  countries;  has  established  about  seventy  schools, 
containing  more  than  3,000  scholars;  and  is  making  a  gradual,  but  con- 
stant and  sure  progress,  towards  raising  from  a  degraded  and  vicious 
barbarism,  several  interesting  portions  of  our  race.  The  voice  of  the 
preacher  is  heard,  and  religious  books  and  tracts  are  seen  to  circulate. 


1824.  Mission  at  Bombay: — Joint  Letter  of  the  JSlissionaries. 

Ill    numerous  villa°;es;  and  the  germs  of  Cliristian  civilization  are  be- 
iic'ul  shooting  forth  in  a  multitude  of  places. 

We  ask,  in  closing  this  survey,  whether  money,  ichich  is  produc- 
ing snch  grand  results,  is  not  luell  employ ed7  To  what  more  noble 
object  can  it  be  applied,  than  that  of  sending  the  Gospel,  with  its  ten 
thousand  attendant  blessings,  to  a  number  of  nations,  and  to  millions 
of  people? — in  doing  for  the  ancestors  of  generations  who  shall  live  a 
thousand  years  hence,  what  was  done  for  our  ancestors  a  thousand 
years  ago?  The  enterprise  is  certainly  feasible;  for  similar  enterpris- 
es have  been  achieved  Were  not  our  progenitors  pagans — barbarous 
pagans?  And  were  they  not  such,  long  after  the  Apostles  had  left  the 
world,  and  long  after  miracles  had  ceased?  By  what  means,  tben,  were 
they  converted  to  the  Christian  faith?  Was  their  conversion  the  spon- 
taneous result  of  their  own  reflections?  Were  they  christianized  by 
philosophers?  Was  the  grand  effect  produced  by  farmers  and  mechan- 
ics, acting  without  the  contemporaneous  aid  of  religious  truth?  No 
such  thing.  Philosophical  wisdom  had  no  agency  in  those  changes; 
and  the  arts  were,  in  most  cases,  introduced  subsequently  to  the  Gos- 
pel. The  nations  were  christianized,  and,  in  fact,  civilized,  by  means 
of  MISSIONARY  EFFORTS.  France,  Germany,  Russia,  Denmark,  and 
Great  Britain,  are  indebted  to  missionaries,  to  foreign  missionaries, 
for  the  blessings  of  the  Gospel  By  means  of  such  efforts,  more  fee- 
ble than  those  of  the  present  day,  and  made  under  circumstances  far 
less  advantageous;  and  by  means  of  such  missionaries,  not  half  so  uell 
sustained  by  the  churches  of  those  times; — by  means  of  such  efforts 
and  such  agents  w-ere  the  barbarous  nations  of  Europe,  and  our  ances- 
tors among  them,  won  over  to  a  Christian  profession.  Why,  then, 
should  modern  attempts  to  convert  barbarous  pagans  to  the  Christian 
faith,  be  thought  visionary?  The  experiment  has  been  often  tried,  and 
has  often  succeeded.  Unbelief  need  not  wait  for  future  events  to  re- 
move its  doubts.  IVIissions  to  heathen  nations,  are  as  old  as  the  Chris- 
tian religion.  The  Gospel  has  always  been  propagated  by  means  of 
them.  Every  cliiLirch  established  by  the  Apostles,  out  of  Judea,  and 
every  Gentile  nation  and  tribe,  which  has  acknowledged  Jesus  Christ 
to  be  the  Messiah,  is  an  undeniable  proof  of  the  feasibility  of  attempts 
made  to  evangelize  the  heathen; — of  the  feasibility  of  the  heavenly  en- 
terprize,  in  which  the  American  churches  are  engaged.  Let  the  enter- 
prizc,  then,  be  prosecuted, — fearlessl}',  perseveringly,  systematically, 
and  with  ever  increasing  energy! 


iicccnt  IntcUiBcuce. 


MISSION  AT  BOMBAY. 

1«0M  the  joint  letter  of  t!-.e  niissionai-ies 
dated  Jan.  6,  1823,  we  make  the  laMowing 
extracts,  which  will  be  acceptable  to  our 
readers. 


1  Method  of  preaching  the  Gospel. 

We  ftill  contintie  our  usual  method  of 
addres-sins:  the  Gospe>  to  tlie  jieople,  by  the 
way  side,  in  the  field,  at  (lair  hou.'^e.',  and 
ill  their  asfenjblies,  as  we  meet  with  ti.ein 
on  going  out  for  the  purpose  daily.  Be- 
sides  (his,  we  avail  ourseives  of  opporluni- 


Mission  at  Bombay: — Joint  Letter  of  the  Missionaries. 


ties,  which  we  esteem  suitable,  of  making; 
regular  appointments,  in  various  places; 
sometimes  weekly,  sometimes  daily,  and 
sometimes  twice  a  day,  according  to  our 
ability  and  the  prospect  of  collecting  the 
people.  Our  method  of  conducting  these 
meetings  is  various,  according  to  the  cir- 
cumstances of  the  hearers.  We  some- 
times commence  and  close  by  singing  and 
prayer.  Sometimes  we  deliver  written 
discourses.  At  others,  we  read  and  ex- 
plain, and  endeavor  to  applj',  the  Scrip- 
tures; and,  often,  after  reading  a  portion 
of  Scripture,  we  address  the  people  ea:/em- 
pore,  from  some  particular  text.  The  num- 
ber of  hearers  is  various,  from  ten  individ- 
uals to  two  or  three  hundred.  Some  per- 
sons of  every  class  are  occasionally' present. 
Sometimes  the  stillness  and  attention  al- 
most or  quite  equal  that  of  an  assembly  in 
our  native  countrj';  and  sometimes  there  is 
conversation  and  confusion,  opposition,  re- 
sentment, reviling,  and  blasphemy.  And 
though  we  see  much  to  discourage  expecta- 
tion from  human  means  alone,  yet  we  see 
nothing  which  leads  us  to  think  a  general 
and  powerful  effnsion  of  the  Divine  Spirit 
impossible  or  improbable.  We  see  noth- 
ing, which  proves  in  the  least,  that  such  a 
blessing  will  be  long  delayed.  Nor  can  we 
exhibit  any  positive  evidence  that  it  will 
soon  be  granted.  It  is  not  for  us  to  know 
the  times  and  seasons,  which  our  Heavenly 
Father  has  put  in  his  own  power.  But  the 
more  extensively  we  declare  the  Gospel, 
and  the  greater  the  increase  of  the  knowl- 
edge Of  it  among  those  who  have  heard  it 
most,  the  stronger  are  our  hopes  that  it 
will  prove  saving.  And  we  think  we  dis- 
cern some  favorable  symptoms;  none  infal- 
lible indeed;  but  some,  which  we  think  we 
should  mention  with  gratitude  to  Him, 
who  holds  the  hearts  of  all  men  in  his 
hands. 

Various  Encouragemcnlx. 

The  Jews  in  this  region,  though  they 
are  not  numerous,  naturally  excite  much 
of  our  interest  and  compassion.     Our  JeAv-  ! 
ish    school    tearliers,  and    some   others    of} 
that  people  with  whom  we  are  acquainted,  i 
have  manifested  an  encouraging  attention,  i 
and  a   degree  of  impression  in  favor  of  the  i 
truth,  whicii  we  cannot  but  hope  M-ill  soon 
break  through  the  fear  of  man  and  be  open-  ' 
ly  avowed,      ^.^'e  have  similar  but  stronger  ■ 
hopes,  in  regard  to  our  Jewish  superintend-  j 
ent  nf  schcols.     He  expresses   a  specula-  | 
tive  conviction  of  the  truth  of  the  Christian  i 
religion;  and  also,    at  times,   manifests    a 
considerable  dtgree  of  concern  for  his  soul.  | 
One  of  our  Jewish    school  teachers,  after  ' 
reading,  in  company  with  him  and  several  i 
other  Jev,s,   from  our   tracts  written   for 
them,  said  so  much  in  favor  of  the  Chris-  I: 


Jau, 

tian  religion,  as  to  subject  himself  to  a  fine 
imposed  by  his  people.  There  are  also 
some  Hindoos,  who  manifest  a  rather  in- 
creased attention;  and,  to  a  considerable 
extent,  give  evidence  of  a  speculative  con- 
viction of  the  truth.  Seo  do,  also,  a  few 
Mussulmans  and  more  Catholics.  Some 
of  the  latter  have  manifested  a  determina- 
tion to  read  the  Scriptures,  at  all  events. 
Others,  indeed,  some  of  every  class  Hin- 
doos, Catholics,  Mussulmans,  and  Jews, 
manifest  a  determined  and  settled  opposi- 
tion to  the  Gospel.  But  kw  are  so  much 
opposed  as  to  prevent  their  receiving  occa- 
sional instruction  and  admonition. 

We  trust,  therefore,  that  our  Christian 
friends,  who  know  the  power  and  ways 
of  God,  will  neither  faint  nor  fear;  but  en- 
courage themselves  in  Him,  and  persever- 
ingly  jeek  his  blessing,  on  the  work  of  our 
hands. 


Inlernal  stale  of  the  Mission. 

As  to  our  own  spiritual  state,  which  is 
no  trifling  criterion  of  our  hopes,  we  con- 
fess we  have  much  to  lament;  and  feeling 
this,  we  have  commenced  a  monthly  fast, 
on  the  same  day  as  that  observed  by  our 
brethren  in  Ceylon.  These  seasons  we 
have  found  precious,  and  we  trust  the}' 
will  be  found  profitable,  by  contributing  to 
prepare  us  to  witness  displays  of  divine 
power  among  the  people,  and  to  keep  us 
nearer  our  precious  Savior.  We  cherish 
the  hope  that,  through  divine  grace  alone, 
we  shall  still  be  made  to  rejoice,  according- 
to  the  days  wherein  we  have  been  afflicted, 
and  the  years  in  which  we  have  seen  evil. 
But,  however  this  may  be,  we  will  endea- 
vor, in  regard  to  our  own  mission,  to  con- 
fide in  the  divine  wisdom  and  goodness; 
and,  in  regard  to  others,  we  will  ever  re- 
joice and  praise  the  Lord,  for  the  blessings 
which  rest  oti  them,  and  for  the  effusions 
of  the  Holy  Spirit  in  our  native  land,  as  well 
as  for  all  the  success  divinely  vouchsafed 
towards  every  institution  formed  to  pro- 
mote the  cause  of  Christ.  Ey  all  events, 
distant  or  near,  v/hich  favor  that  cause,  we 
feel  ourselves  refreshed  and  blessed;  and, 
believing  it  to  be  essential  to  our  holy  re- 
ligion, to  possess  and  exhibit  a  spirit  of  uni- 
versal benevolence,  we  take  the  present 
opportunity  of  declaring  ourselves,  united- 
ly and  individually,  deeply  interested  in 
the  prosperity  of  all  societies,  that  seek  the 
promotion  of  peace  and  the  complete  abo- 
lition of  war.  May  they  all  prove  greatly 
instrumental  in  establishing  that  kingdom, 
which  is  to  extend  over  the  whole  earth, 
and  which  consists  in  peace  and  love. 

To  the  foregoing  account,  which  is  given  by 
all  the  missionaiies,  it  is  deemed  proper  to 


1824, 


Mission  at  Bombay: — Letter  from  Mr.  J^ichols. 


subjoin  the  following  statements,  drawn  from 
a  letter  of  Mr.  Nichols  to  the  Corresponding 
Secretary,  dated  June  30,  1822. 

I  have  had  no  serious  indisposition,  since 
ray  return  to  my  station;  and  though  my 
former  strength  has  never  been  recovered,  j 
yet  I  have  been  enabled  to  attend  to  the 
various  duties  of  the  mission  with  much 
satisfaction.  I  can  say  with  truth,  that  no 
part  of  my  missionary  life  has  been  more 
pleasant,  or  more  encouraging.  In  obedi- 
ence to  the  adnonitions  of  medical  friends, 
I  have  not  passed  my  time  in  so  sedentary 
a  manner,  as  I  was  accustomed  to  do.  I 
found  by  sad  experience,  that  I  could 
not  sit  all  day  in  reading  native  books, 
translating,  &c.  Of  course  I  have  been 
out  more  among  the  people,  seeking  op- 
portunities to  communicate  to  them  the 
blessed  Gespel:  and,  in  this  respect,  I 
have  been  much  fnvored.  I  have  greatly 
incrertsed  my  acquaintance  with  the  hea- 
then in  this  large  town,  and  populous  vi- 
cinity. 

This  I  conceive  to  be  a  matter  of  great 
importance.     The  heathen,  in  general,  are  | 
not  likely    to  be  much    affected  by  what  j 
they   hear  from    a  missionary,  whom  they 
have  never  seen  before,  and  may  never  see 
again;  of  whose  circumstances  and  feelings  j 
they  have  no   knowledge,  and  whom  they  j 
suppose  to  be   equally  ignorant  of  theirs,  j 
By  their  habits,    manners,   prejudices,  and  i 
language,  the  heathen  are  at  first  separated  \ 
from  us  by  an   almost  impassable  barrier,  i 
But  this  barrier  must  be  passed,  by  a  series  ; 
of  kind  attentions  and  familiar  intercourse.  ! 
Light  and  knowledge  must  be  let  intp  their  \ 
minds,  through   the   medium  of  their  own 
reflections,  and  in  the  channel  of  their  own 
habits.     Hence  I  have  found  it  important 
to  begin  conversations  with  this  people  on 
worldly  subjects;  that  is,  such  as  affected 
them    most;  to    sympathize   with   them   in 
trouble,  and  to   manifest  an  interest  in  all 
that  concerns  them.     If  it  is  important  for 
a  minister,  in  a  Christian  land,  to  remove 
prejudice  and  create   affection  on  the  part 
of  his  charge  towards  himself,  it  is  not  less 
so  among  a  heathen  people.     To  gain  an 
extensive  acquaintance  requires  intercourse 
every  day;  an  intercourse,  which  must  b& 
continued  for  years-     liCt   a   Hindoo,    or 
Mussulman,   settle  in  New  York,  or  Bos- 
ton.    He  might  be  known  there,  as  we  are 
known  here,  by   the  distinction  of  dress, 
complexion,  &c.  in  a  short  time;  but  how 
long  might  he  reside  there,  before  he  could 
gain  a  tolerable  acquaintance  with  a  con- 
siderable number  of  persons?   I  am  happy 
to   say,  (and  I  would   do  it  with  humility 
and  gratitude,)  that    I   have  been  enabled 
to  extend  my  intercourse  and  acquaintance 
durini;  the  past  year,  to  a  large  number  of 


people,  whom  I  had  not  been  ab]e  to  visit 
before.  Many,  who  were  once  shy,  and 
cold,  and  jealous,  have  been  led  to  free 
conversations  on  the  Gospel,  and  on  their 
own  false  religion. 

Tannah  is  a  very  large  and  growing  town, 
and,  with  all  the  region  round  about,  is 
wholly  given  to  idolatry.  No  breath  of 
the  Spirit  has  yet  infused  life  into  these  dry 
bones.  Yet,  I  dare  not  say,  that  the  Spi- 
rit of  God  is  not  working  here.  I  dare  not 
say,  that  arrows  of  conviction  have  not 
been  fixed  in  many  a  heart.  Certain  I  am, 
that  many  have  heard  the  Gospel  frequent- 
ly and  distinctly  proclaimed.  Often  have 
I  returned  liome  in  the  evening,  after  hav- 
ing been  for  hours  in  the  high  ways  and 
hedges,  my  heart  burning  with  the  ardent 
hope  that  God  was  about  doing  great 
things  here;  and  often  have  I  returned 
with  a  heavy  heart,  saying,  our  hope  is 
lost.  But  blessed  be  God,  he  does  not 
cease  to  regard  us  in  mercy,  though  he 
has  not  yet  given  us  souls  for  our  hire. 
We  are  satisfied  with  the  portion  he  hai 
given  us,  though,  like  Abraham  in  Canaan, 
we  have  no  inheritance  except  by  promise. 

It    will  probably  be  found, — says  the   Re- 
port  of  the   Committee,  commenting  on  the 
preceding  notices, — when  Christianity  comes 
to  prevail  in  all  western  India,  (as  will  surely 
be  the  case  at  some  future  time,  and  may  be 
the  case  before  the  present  generation   shall 
have    disappeared,)   that    the  instructions  of 
i  missionaries,  given   in  the    various    methods 
j  which  they  employ,    will  have  excited  many 
I  individuals  to  inquire   into  the  nature  of  reli- 
gion, and  to  seek  for  a   better  foundation  of 
their  hopes  than  idolatry  and  superstition  can 
furnish.     The  history  of  the  church  does  not 
afford  any  instance  of  divine  truth  being  clear- 
ly proposed  to  the    understandings  and  con- 
sciences of  men,  through  a  long  series  of  years, 
without  producing  its  appropriate  effects  in 
the    conversion   and   sanctifioation   of    souls. 
Times  of  darkness  and  discouragement  have 
not  been  unfrequent;  and  the  result  of  evan- 
gelical preaching  is  not  always  seen  immedi- 
ately; but  sooner  or  later  it  will  be  discover- 
ed and  acknowledged,  that  the  testimony  of 
God  is  not  declared  in  vain.     On  this  unifor- 
mity of  the  divine  proceedings, — on  the  com- 
mand of  Christ,  the  example  of  the  apostles, 
and  the  numerous  promises  of  a  day  of  glory 
to    the    world,   the    missionaries     and    their 
friends   may  securely  rest,  so   long   as    they 
cheerfully    and  faithfully  discharge  their   re- 
spective   duties.     A  reliance   on  God,  as  the 
ii  onlv  efficient  cause  of  a   spiritual  renovation. 


Cherokee  Mission:— Tour  of  Rev.  Mr.  Butrick. 


Jak. 


and  as  bestowing  his  grace  according  to  the 
decisions  of  unerring  wisdom,  does  not  imply, 
however,  that  Christians  should  look  with  the 
same  emotions  upon  a  moral  desert,  and  up- 
on a  field  xuhich  the  Lord  hath  blessed.  When 
tokens  of  the  divine  favsr  are  withheld,  and 
nothing  but  a  vast  region  of  spiritual  death  is 
spread  before  the  eye,  there  is  peculiar  occa- 
sion  for  mourning  and  humiliation  before 
tiod; — for  a  strict  examination,  whether  the 
message  of  salvation  is  delivered  in  the  man- 
ner adopted  by  our  Lord  and  the  apostles; 
and  for  importunate  prayer,  that  those  who 
act  as  ambassadors  of  Chiist  to  a  guilty  world 
may  be  under  the  special  guidance  of  the 
Holy  Ghost;  and  that  those  who  hear  may 
have  their  hearts  opened;  by  the  same  divine 
influence,  to  receive  the  truth  in  love.  It 
should  not  be  felt,  that  the  conversion  of  the 
heathen  is  to  rest,  so  far  as  human  instru- 
mentality is  concerned,  upon  missionaries 
alone.  Every  friend  of  Christ  should  take  a 
share,  not  only  in  furnishing  the  resources  by 
which  the  work  is  carried  on  externally,  but 
in  bearing  upon  his  heart  the  burden  of  a 
world  sinking  under  the  weight  of  sin, — a 
world  exposed  lo  perdition,  even  now  experi- 
encing God's  displeasure,  and  yet  madly  re- 
jecting the  salvation  of  the  Gospel,  which  is 
so  freely  and  invitingly  proposed  to  all. 


MISSION  AMONG  THE  CHEROKEES. 

TOUR    or    KEV.    MR.    BUTRICK. 

During  the  last  winter,  Mr.  Butrick  pene- 
trated further  into  the  northeast  parts  of  the 
Cherokee  nation,  than  he  had  ever  been  be- 
fore. We  shall  now  give  several  extracts 
from  the  journal,  which  he  kept  during  this 
tour,  and  in  which  there  are  some  interesting 
descriptions  of  the  country  and  its  inhabi- 
tants. 

Tuesday,  Feb.  4,  1823.  Left  Taloney 
in  company  with  brother  Thomas  Ba?sel, 
interpreter,  and  brother  David  Sanders, 
who  is  our  guide  to  J^Ioxmlnin  Town, 
where  we  have  an  ajjpointment  for  meet- 
ins;.  Rode  over  a  mountainous  region  fif- 
teen or  twenty  miles, — and  called  at  the 
Rabbit's.  He  is  the  head  chief  of  Moun- 
tain Town  and  brother  to  the  Creek  inter- 
preter. He  received  us  with  peculiar  kind- 
ness and  attention.  Spent  the  evening  in 
sinking  Cherokee  hymns,  conversing  on  the 
oreat  concerns  of  religion,  &zc.  Brother 
Thomas  prayed  in   hi?  own  langna'^e.     A 


number  of  the  neighbors  came,  'and  spent 
the  evening  with  us.  The  chief  thinks 
they  should  all  believe,  if  they  could  have 
the  Gospel  explained  to  their  understand- 
ing. 

At  Ta-go-i,  where  Thomas  had  many  rel- 
atives, they  spent  two  or  three  days.  During 
this  time  they  had  much  pleasing  intercourse 
with  the  people.  The  following  incident  is 
related - 

Sabbath  9.  The  chiefs  desired  me  to 
read  a  letter  from  Mr.  Hicks  relative  to 
their  land.  I  took  the  oppoiiunity  of  ex- 
plaining [he  nature  and  design  of  the  Holy 
Sabbatjj,  and  requested  them  to  wait  till 
evening,  which  they  agreed  to  do.  Brother 
Thomas,  when  speaking  of  the  Sabbath, 
told  them,  that  Christians  dressed  in  clean 
clothes,  on  that  day.  The  old  chief,  (he  is 
probably  eighty  or  ninety  years  ohi)  re- 
plied that  he  would  dress  himself.  He  ac- 
cordingly went  out  and  soon  returned 
^vith  a  clean  white  hunting  frock,  a  hat 
with  a  large  silver  band  round  it, — wide 
silver  bands  round  his  arms,  a  large  silver 
crescent  in  his  bosom,  and  below  it  a  silver 
medal,  given  him  by  the  President,  k.c. 
saluting  us  as  a  chief  from  a  grea^  dis- 
tance. 

Monday,  10.  The  Rising  Fawn  and  our 
guide  from  Board  Town  came.  The  R,ising 
Fawn  ts  a  principal  chief  in  this  part  of  the 
countr3-,  and  a  distinguished  speaker  in  the 
national  council.  He  seems  determined 
to  follow  the  directions  of  the  Bible.  He 
wished  me  to  state  some  time  when  we 
would  come  again,  promising  to  accompa- 
ny us  from  Turnip  Town.  In  this  place 
are  many  inhabitants,  full  Cherokees;  and 
none,  that  I  know  of,  able  to  speak  or  un- 
derstand English.  O  will  the  Lord  re- 
member them  and  by  some  means  bring 
them  to  a  knowledge  of  his  great  salvation. 
After  breakfast,  in  company  with  brother 
Thomas's  uncle,  and  our  friend  from 
Board  Town,  we  set  out  for  the  mission 
station  in  the  Valley  Towns,  where  we 
arrived  a  little  after  dark,  having  passed 
through  a  most  mountainous  region.  A 
little  before  sunset,  being  on  high  land,  we 
had  a  clear  view  of  the  surrounding  coun- 
try; but  the  sublimity,  the  grandeur,  the 
beauty  of  the  scene  I  can  never  express. 
Before,  behind,  and  on  either  side,  were 
mountains  above  mountains,  peak  above 
peak,  rising  almost  to  the  clouds. 

The  mission  here  mentioned  is  under  the 
care  of  the  Baptist  Board  of  Foreign  Mis- 
sions; and  by  the  members  of  it  Mr.  B.  was 
received  with  grc;it  kindness  and  cordialit)-. 
At   their  rtquest  he  visited  the    schools  and 


1S2-I. 


Cherokee  Mk&ion:—TuW-  of  Rev.  Mr.  Butnek. 


both  he  and  Thomas  Basscl  addressefl  the 
pupils.  Messrs.  Roberts  and  Jones  are  ihc 
missionaries.  They  advised  Mr.  Hntiiok  to 
jiroceed  still  furlhei-  tii\v;ird  Uk'  northeast,  for 
the  purjiose  of  visitiny;  some  s^^luded  villages, 
and  requested  one  of  llieir  pupils  lo  go  as  a 
companion  and  guide,  'i'he  youth  i-lieerfully 
consented,  ilis  n.ime  was  Suti.  lise  first 
day,  the  travellers  went  about  twenty  miles  lo 
IiOiif^  'J'oxoH,  where  they  ttaid  over  niglit. 
I'lic  following  is  an  account  of  thoir  nex't 
d;ty's  journey. 

Tuesday,  18.  Soon  in  tlie  morning  vve 
set  oft'  for  Otler  Town  where  Soli's  father 
lives.  We  left  an  appointment,  iiovvever, 
to  he  here  a2:aiii  on  Thursday.  We  soon 
began  to  ascend  a  most  difticult  mountain. 
We  were  aboiit  two  hours  nscendinic  it, 
and  much  of  the  time  were  climbing  a  very 
sleep  a.'icent.  Sometimes  to  gft  round  a 
peak  on  the  ridge,  we  were  obliged  to  go 
on  the  side,  where  it  seemed  impos.sihle  for 
a  horse  to  stand  1  found  it  enough  for  me 
to  take  care  of  myself,  and  committed  the 
little  poney  to  the  care  of  Seti,  I  went 
forward  with  trembling  stejis,  sometimes 
crawling  on  my  hands  and  feet,  afraid  to 
look  to  the  right  hand  or  to  the  left,  or 
think  much  of  our  situation.  When  I 
looked  forward  I  was  alarmed  again  and 
again,  by  mountains  above  mountains  rising 
to  an  astonishing  height,  ^vhich  we  liad 
still  to  pass  over.  I  thought  of  going  back, 
but  the  text  for  the  day  came  to  m^-  rnind, 
viz.;  ''Thou  shalt  go  to  all  that  I  shall  send 
thee;  and  whatsoever  I  conmraiid  thee, 
thou  shalt  speak."'''  And  further  I  thought 
it  impossible  for  the  horses  to  turn  about 
where  we  then  were.  At  last  the  Lord 
brought  us  in  safelj',  awd  Tvith  joy,  to  the 
top  of  the  mountain.  Here  I  had  anticipat- 
f  d  <iie  pleasure  of  finding  a  little  resting 
place,  to  view  tlie  surrounding  region, 
which  I  had  not  ventured  to  do  by  tke  way, 
lest  the  extraordinary  height,  and  tlie  dis- 
mal steeps,  frequentl}'  on  b>->th  sid"^.?,  should 
render  me  incapable  of  asc-ending  the  peaks 
.•till  before  me;  but  on  the  top,  I  found  no 
rest  for  the  soles  of  my  feet.  I  durst  not 
stop  to  take  a  fair  survey  of  the  countrj". 

We  therefore  hastened  our  way  down 
through  the  snow  i^erhaps  a  foot  d'rep, 
though  at  the  bottom  on  the  south  side  the 
ground  was  warm  and  dry;  and,  in  abi^nt 
three  hours  from  the  time  wc  first  came  to 
the  mountain,  through  tJie  kindness  of  God 
we  found  ourselves  safe  at  (lie  bottoni,  in  a 
region  wliere  tlie  Gospel  had  doubtless  been 
forever  unknown. 

We  called  on  the  chief  and  proposed  a 
meeting.  He  appointed  it  (o-iuori-o*^-  about 
noon  at  the  council  liouse.  We  (iicn  rude 
about  six  miles  to  Soli's  father's,  having 
Travelled  about  twenty  miles.  Some  of 
VOL.    X\-. 


i\ii:  neighbors  came  and  spent  (he  evening 
witli  us.  We  improved  (he  (ime  in  singing, 
prayer,  and  conversation  on  the  great  doc- 
(rines  of  religion. 

Wednesday,  19.  Spent  (he  mrirning 
in  conversation  with  Soti's  father,  a  very 
old  man.  After  breakfast  vve  all  kneeled 
before  our  common  Lord,  (o  implore  hi' 
Ijlessing,  and  then  set  off  for  the  counrii 
hon!=e  about  six  miles  distant.  The  road 
being  bad,  and  our  horses  fatigued,  we 
concluded  to  vvalk,  being  accompanied  bj- 
our  dear  Cherokee  friends.  About  fifty 
men  besides  some  women  and  chiMren  as- 
sembled. After  prayer  and  singing,  broiher 
Thonias  gave  them  a  short  account  of 
Christians  at  the  north,  their  method  o;' 
raising  money,  making;  c'othes,  Szc.  for  tin- 
suj)poi't  ol'  schools,  tc.  lie  al=o  sta(ed  (he 
coa(en(s  of  a  letter  from  Mr.  Hicks.  Aftcv 
this  I  spoke  of  the  Bible,  as  being  the  only 
light  to  guide  us  in  safety  through  tljis 
world.  I  dwelt  particularly  on  the  way  of 
salvation,  pointed  cut  in  the  Bible,  tluoug'i 
our  divirie  Lord  and  Savior. 

I  told  them  of  his  coming  into  the  world, 
his  character,  miracles,  sufferings,  death, 
resurrection, ascension,  invi(a(ion  to  sinnersf 
Szc.  and  of  !iis  ability  and  willingness  to  save 
all  who  come  to  him.  Afu-r  this  we  sung, 
and  payed,  and  took  our  leave  cf  the  a.s- 
sembl^f.  Before  we  left  th.cm,  how- 
ever, they  wished  to  know  when  we 
would  come  agi'.in,  stating  that  they  needed 
some  one  to  tell  them  often  of  tiiese  great 
truths,  and  cxprcs.^ed  much  gratitude  for 
our  present  visit.  V/e  returned  to  Soti's 
father's  and  spent  tiie  evening  in  conversa- 
tion, singing,  &c.  Wb  attended  prayer  rs 
usual,  but  Soti,  who  appears  really  serious, 
and  inquiring  after  Go.d,  wished  us  to  pray 
again.  O  how  dear  these  poor  people 
seemed  to  me.  I  often  wept  at  the  thought 
of  leaving  (hem  exposed  to  all  tlie  wiles  of 
Satan  with  no  one  to  guide  them  to  the 
fold  of  Jesus. 

This  town  lies  near  tlie  line  of  North 
Carolina;  is  almost  entirely  surrounded  by 
mountains;  contains  from  one  to  two  hun- 
dred families,,  and  but  one  individual,  that 
I  know  of,  able  to  sneak  English.  After 
breakfast,  and  after  cornmending  this  deal' 
family  and  people  to  God  by  prayer,  we 
set  off  for  Long  Town.  We  returned  a  dif- 
ferent v.ay  from  tl  at  we  came,  in  ordrr  to 
visit  J.  Arch's  friends,  and  also  to  cross  the 
rnmintain.  at  a  place  where  it  is  not  so  high, 
th(  ugn  steeper  for  a  short  distance.  About 
10  o'clock  we  arrived  at  brother  .\  Arch's 
mother's,  where  we  founrl  his  brother,  un- 
clt ',  sisters,  c^c.  assenibled  to  meet  us  ac- 
cording to  previous  arrangement.  Hera 
we  hud  a  precious  interview  with  these 
dear  people;  and  after  dinner,  having  spent 
about  (wo  hours  wi(li  (hem,  we  set  out  for 
Long  Town.    The  mountain,  and  tlie  path 


10 


Cherokee  Mission: — Tour  of  Rev.  Mr.  Butrick. 


Jan. 


generally,  were  very  bad,  so  that  we  did 
not  arrive  at  the  place  where  we  had  ap- 
pointed a  meeting,  until  near  sun  set. 
Many  of  the  people  had  returned  home. 
The  chiefs  and  a  iaw  others  wer""  yet  wait- 
ing. I  told  the  chiefs  I  would  meet  them 
the  next  morning.  S-orae  of  the  people, 
however,  thought  the  meeting  was  to  be 
that  nighf;  and  a  numerous  ass-embly  met 
at  the  council  house,  and  about  9  o'clock 
sen-t  for  me.  I  told  them,  that  by  an  ar- 
rangement with  the  chiefs,  I  was  to  meet 
them  the  next  morning.  Brother  Thomas 
a«d  Soti  went  with  them,  and  sptnt  a  good 
part  of  the  night  in  talking,  &c. 

In  the  morning  before  sunrise,  they  sent 
again  for  me  to  come.  I  accordingly  went, 
and  found  |>erbaps  200  people  assembled, 
and  fifte-en  or  twenty  young  women  or  girls 
engaged  in  a  dance.  Their  appearance 
was  neat,  their  dress  good;  but  what  a  dif- 
ference would  religion  make,  in  all  their 
feelings  and  be-liavior.  Soon  their  music 
ceased,  and  all  was  still. 

After  singing  and  prayer,  I  spoke  to  them 
in  substance,  nearly  as  yesterday,  at  Otter 
Town.  They  heard  with  the  utmost  atten- 
tion; and  were  endeared  to  me  more  and 
more.  After  an  address  of  perhaps  an 
hour  and  a  half,  and  commending  them 
again  to  God,  we  took  an  affectionate  leave. 
The  men  and  boys,  and  many  of  the  wo- 
mea  and  girls,  came  and  shook  hands  with 
us;  after  which  the  old  chief,  with  a  distin- 
guishing dress  and  appearance,  arose  and 
spoke  at  some  length,  thanking  us  for  our 
kindness  in  visiting  them,  k,c.  He  then 
shpok  hands,  and  thus  we  took  our  leave  of 
this  dear  people.  1  saw  none  in  the  assem- 
l)ly  who  were  not  full  Cherokees,  and  none 
w€re  able  to  understand  English.  This 
town  is  near  the  head  of  the  valley  rivev. 

Friday,  21.  Rode  down  the  river  ten  or 
twelve  miles  to  Tellico;  called  on  the 
chief  and  proposed  a  meeting.  He  ap- 
pointed this  evening  at  the  council  house, 
and  immediately  sent  messengers  to  give 
information.  About  dark  we  went  to  the 
place  appointed.  The  people  continued 
coming,  till  after  9  o'clock.  VVe  then  com- 
menced meeting,  having,  I  should  judge, 
near  200  hearers.  As  they  were  ignorant 
of  the  first  jirinciples  of  religion,  I  thought 
best  to  go  over  nearly  the  same  ground  as 
ID  Otter  and  Long  Towns.  They  seemed 
attentive  to  all  I  said.  Oar  meeting  con- 
tinued about  an  hoTjr  and  a  lialf.  We  then 
took  leave  of  these  deaf  people,  a  little  be- 
fore 11  o'clock,  and  returned  to  the  chief's. 
O  may  the  Lord  be  with  them,  and  fix  his 
Ward  in  their  hearts,  as  a  nail  va  a  sure 
place,  and  may  their  souls  be  saved  in  the 
last  great  day. 

Saturday,  22.  Soon  in  the  morning  re- 
turned to  our  dear  brethren  in  the  mission. 
During  this  tour  I   have  seen  hundreds  of 


Indians,  and  but  two  who  could  talk  Eng- 
lish; and  those  were  partly  educated  in 
white  families.  Spent  the  afternoon  and 
evening  with  our  dear  Christian  friends  and 
the  children  of  the  schools. 

On  the  following  Tuesday,  Mr.  Butrick,  in 
company  with  the  Baptist  missionaries,  visit- 
ed another  Indian  village,  ten  or  tweWe  miles 
h-oin  the  station;  and  soon  afterwards  returned 
to  BrainertI,  through  a  part  of  Tennessee. 
The  valley  towns  are  situated  on  the  head 
waters  of  the  Hiwassee,  near  the  dividing  line 
between  North  Carolina  and  Georgia,  and  not 
far  from  the  upper  corner  of  South  Carolina. 
The  Baptist  mission  has  been  established 
there  for  several  years. 

The  following  description  of  eligible  place; 
for  the  establishment  of  local  schools  was 
drawn  by  jVIr.  Butrick,  in  the  course  of  the 
year  past,  after  a  better  acquaintance  with  aJj 
parts  of  the  (Cherokee  country,  than  any  other 
of  the  missionaries  has  been  able  to  gain. 

As  I  was  riding  from  Hightowerto  Talo- 
ney,  I  reflected  on  the  most  suitable  places 
for  local  schools. 

My  feelings  would  lead  me  to  place  Tsi- 
yo-he^  or  Otter  Toivn.,  first.  This  town  is 
about  100  miles  N.  E.  from  Ttiloney;  joining 
North  Carolina.  It  is  fenced  in  by  almost 
impassable  mountains;  but  contains  a  beau- 
tiful tract  of  land,  sutficient  to  support  a 
great  number  of  inhabitants.  It  contains, 
I  think,  between  one  and  two  hundred 
families.  These  dear  people,  in  general 
full  Cherokees,  End  ignorarvt  of  the  English 
language,  are  in  a  very  destitute  and  affect- 
ing situation.  Their  white  neighbors,  in 
North-Carolina,  are  hostile  to  them.  And 
further,  the  old  chief  expressed  a  public 
and  earnest  desire  to  have  some  one  teach 
them  constantly  the  great  things  of  religion. 
This  town  is  thirty  or  forty  miles  N.  E. 
from  the  Baptist  mission.  Almost  all  the 
relatives  of  our  dear  brother  John  Arch 
live  in  that  place.  One  or  two  large  towns 
over  the  mountain  might  also  be  benefitted 
by  the  instruction. 

2.  Ta-gn-e..^  twenty- five  or  thirty  miles 
this  side  of  the  Baptist  Mission  and  about 
forty  miles  N.  E.  from  Taloney.  Here  are 
two  large  towns,  Ta-go-e  and  Hemp-town, 
so  situated  that  both  might  be  accommodat- 
ed by  one  school.  These  poor  people  are 
in  a  miserable  situation.  They  have  no 
blacksmith  nearer,  I  believe,  than  Taloney 
or  the  Baptist  Mission;  unless  the  settle- 
ments in  Georgia  may  be  a  little  nearer.  A 
poor  man,  while  we  were  there,  broke  his 
axe,  and  went  with  us  on  foot  to  the  Bap- 
tist mission  to  get  it  mended.  This  towti 
lies  on  a  most  beautiful  river  of  the  same 
name;    but  called  Amo-yi   after  it  passes 


1824. 


Description  of  J^'atural  Curiosities. 


11 


through  the  mountain  to  its  junction  with  , 
the  Hiwassee,  a  little  above  <lie  Agency.  ' 
This,  I  think,  is  about  the  darkest  part  of  ; 
the  Cherokee  nation. 

3.  Vurnip-Mine-Toicn,  about  eighteen  \ 
miles  N.  E.  from  Taloney.    Within  a  short ; 
distance  of  this  town,  are    several  others, 
which  might  all  be  benel'uted  by  a   school 
and  relisjieus  instruction  here.  i 

4.  Pinelog  about  half  way  between 
Taloney  aod  High-tower.  This  town  cai  a 
creek  of  the  Same  name,  contains  many  in- 
habitants, and  a  beautiful  tract  of  land. 

5.  Beave.-dam^  ten  or  twelve  miles 
from  Turnip  Mountji',  south  of  the  Coosa 
river;  or  Ctdar  Cre'-lt  town,  twelve  miles 
south  of  Bt-aver-dam.  This  last  mention- 
ed town  lies  near  a  settlement  of  Creek  In- 
dians, who  would  doubtless  be  benefitted 
\>y  their  proximity  to  a  school. 

6.  Turkey-Town^  bounded  on  one  side 
by  .-Vlabama  and  on  anotlier  by  tlie  Creek 
line,  about  twenty  or  twenty-five  niiles 
from  the  Creek  settlements,  containing 
many  inhabitants,  and  a  most  beautiful 
tract  of  land,  liere  the  Palh-kiUer,  the 
Soot,  who  is  Creek  interpreter,  and  many 
other  chiefs,  live.  Here  we  could  have  fre- 
quent intercourse  with  the  Creeks,  and,  by 
means  of  the  Boot,  give  them  much  reli- 
gious instruction.  The  Boot,  though  a 
Cherokee,  is  yet  one  of  the  Chiefs  of  the 
Creek  nation;  attends  their  councils;  and 
lias  great  influence  ^vith  the  people.  He  is 
frequently  visited  by  the  chiefs  and  hunters 
of  that  nation,  with  whom  we  could  con- 
Terse  and  thus  spread  the  knowledge  of  di- 
vine things  through  that  dark  land. 

7.  Frog-town,  or,  as  generally  called, 
grooms-town. 

8.  Jlwmuchce,  fifteen  miles  west  of 
fiouth  from  Mr.  Hick's,  on  the  path  leading 
to  Turnip  Mountain.  I  mention  this  place, 
on  account  of  the  great  anxiety  of  the  peo- 
ple last  spring  to  have  a  school.  There  are 
ten  or  twelve  families,  and  a  beautiful  tract 
of  land. 

9.  tMouse-Toivn,  or  Bushey-head's  set- 
tlement. This  is  a  very  important  place, 
though  not  in  as  entire  darkness  as  the  others. 

10.  Spring  Town,  on  the  north  side  of 
the  Hiwassee  river,  fifteen  or  twenty  miles 
above  Columbus. 

From  a  summary  of  Mr.  Butrick's  labors, 
during  a  part  of  tlie  year  p;ist,  it  appears,  that 
lie  travelled  about  2000  miles  in  the  Cliero':ee 
country,  and  held  about  one  hundred  and  fifty 
meetings  with  the  people.  At  these  meetings 
he  either  preached  oi'  expounded  some  portion 
of  Scripture;  or  stated  and  explained  some  of 
the  leading  doctrines  of  the  Bible;  or  repeated 
the  history  of  our  Lord's  suft'ei'ings  and  resur- 
rec'JOD.    He  found  the  natives  peculiarly  at- 


tentive, and  in  no  case  was  he  inteiTOpted  by 
improper  conduct.  He  visited  eight  large  vil- 
lages, where  th.e  Gospel  had  never  baen  heard 
before.  In  iiis  opinion,  two  evangelists  miglit 
be  well  employed  in  that  part  of  the  nation' 
which  extends  from  Otter  To-^un  to  High- 
toxver,  one  liundred  aud  thirty-five  miles,  in  a 
southwesterly  direction,  and  from  th-e  Chero- 
kee eastern  line  to  Voosaivaytee,  about  sixty 
miles.  This  territory  ccntaius  more  ihau 
half  the  Cherokee  populaiion. 


Mr.  Butrick''s  dtscriplionof  J^atural  Curi- 
osities on  the  Lookout  Mountain. 

We  place  the  following  extracts  from  Mr, 
Butrlck's  journal  by  themselves,  for  the  sake 
of  a  connected  view  of  the  curiosities,  which 
he  has  described. 

Saturday,  Aug.  28.  In  company  with 
Mr.  Chamberlain,  I  ascended  the  Lookout 
Mountain,  to  visit  a  citadel  of  rocks,  This 
is  just  at  the  top  of  the  mountain,  and  is 
composed  of  rocks  as  high  as  houses  of  one, 
two,  or  three  stories.  It  is  so  situated  as  to 
atford  streets  and  lanes,  and  to  form  many 
convenient  shelters  from  the  heat,  rain,  and 
wind.  Especially  we  noticed  one  apart- 
ment, twelve  feet  by  fifteen,  and  six  feet 
high  in  the  highest  place,  arched  over  head, 
and  walled  on  each  side,  by  solid  rock;  ex- 
cept an  opening  for  a  door,  and  one  or  two 
places  ia  the  corners,  which  would  serve  for 
chimneys.  Thus  natural  fortress  was  for- 
merly inhabited  by  the  Creeks.  We  saw 
where  they  hung  thtir  meat,  and  where  they 
prepared  their  lodgings-  Here,  alter  view- 
ing for  a  moment  the  wonders  of  Omnipo- 
tence, being  retired  from  all  the  world,  we 
bowed  with  adoratign  belbre  Him,  whose 
favor  is  compared  to  the  shadow  of  a  great 
rock  in  a  weary  land. 

In  the  afternoon  we  exploreil  a  number 
of  caves.  The  first  we  entered  by  a  steej) 
descent  of  eight  or  ten  feet,  through  a  small 
apertore.  We  then  came  to  a  large  cavity, 
whieh  extended  to  the  right  and  left.  VVe 
first  examined  tlie  cavern  on  the  left  hand, 
which  extended  a  number  of  rods.  This 
was  beautifully  ornamented  with  petrifac- 
tions. Here  were  shelves,  benches,  &c. 
su|>ported,  apparently,  by  studs  and  braces 
above   and   below,   and  some   richly  orna- 

;  niented   with  various  articles  of  furniture. 

!  Here,  also,  our  attention  ^vas  caught  by 
curious  petrifactions,  which  we  could  al- 
most   imagine   to    be   a  diminutive  race  of 

1  people  standing  around  us  in  profound  si- 

j  Ilucc,  as  if  struck  dumb  by  the  rash  intru- 

!  si'in  of  strangi'rs. 


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Dcicrifition  of  jValural  Cimositie^. 


Jan. 


After  gratiCjing  our  curiosity  in  this 
secret  abode  of  wonder?,  ue  rctniiied  and 
})>irstied  our  subtirranean  cour.-e  to  the 
right.  Here  we  had  a  more  beautiful  and 
grand  prospect  than  before.  We  found 
ourgelves,  not  iu  a  dark  and  dreary  cavern, 
but  in  a  richly  ornamentetl  mansion,  adorn- 
f  d  as  by  the  cunning  hands  of  the  artist. 
Tables,  settees,  shelves,  and  a  dwarfish 
race,  with  various  ornaments  lianginc:  from 
the  roof,  continually  excited  new  admira- 
tion. 

After  proceeding  a  few  rods,  we  came  to 
a  small  passage  leading  to  another  apart- 
ment, of  whicii  I  will  not  attempt  a  de- 
scription. "Great  and  niarvellous  are  thy 
woi-ks.*  </  Lord,  and  that  my  soul  knowelh 
right  wel!.''' 

In  company  with  several  friends,  Mi-.  i5iu- 
fick  on  the  2Slh,  i-ndc  to  visit  what  he  terms 
"an  ancient  fOitiScalion/'  on  the  Lookout 
^Mountain. 

xAfter  riding  about  eight  miles,  we  came 
to  a  branch  of  Little  lliver,  which  rises  on 
the  mountain,  and  empties  into  Coosa,  a 
tew  miicij  below  C'hattoog_y.  Our  attention 
was  first  arrested  by  the  falls,  a  (ew  rods 
above,  on  cur  left. 

The  perpendicular  fall  is,  I  should  judge, 
thirty  [eet^  and  the  whole  fall  forty  or  fifty. 
At  the  bottom  is  a  large  reservoir  of  water, 
walled  on  Iroth  sides  by  rocks  of  immense 
height.  Turning  our  course  a  few  rods 
down  the  river,  we  came  to  the  outer  wall 
of  the  fortification. 

1'he-stones  were  partly  fallen  down,  and 
earth  had  been  in  part  formed  about  them. 
1'his  wall  is  semicircular,  enclosing  one  or 
two  acres  of  land,  and  terminated  at  each 
end  by  a  precipice.  Wifhin  this  wall  is 
another,  enclosing  less  ground,  but  made 
appi.rently  stronger.  The  precipice  be- 
tween the  two  ends  of  the  wall  is,  we 
judged,  about  200  feet  high,  and  is  nearly 
perpendicular.  In  the  side  of  this  preci- 
pice, about  fifty  feet  from  the  top,  the 
openings  of  caverns  appear. 

U^e  descended  the  rocks  at  a  place 
where  tlie  descent  is  not  diflicult,  twen- 
ty or  thirty  feet.  We  then  turned  to  the 
left,  gredually  descending  by  the  side  of 
the  prt.citjice  a  short  distance,  and  soon 
came  to  the  first  fortress. 

Just  before  coming  to  this,  our  passage 
was  rather  frightful.  On  our  left,  was  a 
lofty  perpendicular  reck  extending  up- 
wards, and  on  our  right  a  precipice  nearly 
{H'rpendicular  extending  downward,  hav- 
ing a  passage  for  us  of  only  two  or  three 
feet  wide.  VVe  did  not  stop  to  examine 
the  prospect,  buf  contented  ourselves  with 
p,assiug  silently  alons;  to  a  place  of  greater 
safety. 


Here,  in  the  side  of  this  tremendous 
precipice,  are  four  apartments  of  sufficient 
size  and  height  for  the  comfortable  accom- 
modation of  a  large  number  of  people. 

They  are  arched  over  head,  and  walled 

on  all  sides   but  one,  by   the  solid  rock. 

From  the  first  room  we  pass  through  a  door 

in  the  partition  to  the  second.     From  the 

second  we  go  round  the  partition,  near  the 

edge  of  the  precipice,   to  the  third;  from 

the  third,  we  crawl  under  the  rock,  through 

a  small  hole,  to  the  fourth.     Between  the 

third   and  fourth  is   a   cavity  in   the  rock, 

sufficiently  large   for  a  number  of  persotis 

to  sit.     Uack  of  the  i'ourth  room,  is  a  small 

chamber,    into  Avhich  a  person  maj'  pass 

ij  throush     a    crevice     in     the     rock.       A 

1]  single  step   from   She    front   door  of  this 

i]  room,  Y/ould  i)recipitate  a  person  150  feet. 

i|      After  examining  these  secure   retreat.?, 

i|  we  retraced  our  steps   to  the  place  where 

I  we  first  descended  the   rocks.     We  then 

l!  (urned  to  the  light,  and  found  three  other 

[j  fortresses,  distinuuished  from  the  four  by  a 

:    more  safe  approach,  and  a  situation  more 

I   reh'red  from  a  view  of  the  tremendous  pre- 

|!  cipice  be'ow. 

|i  In  the  afternoon  of  Wednesday,  we 
jt  explored  another  cave.  This  cave,  at  the 
i!  raouth,  is  about  one  rod  wide,  but  so  low, 
that  we  were  obl-iged  to  stoop  as  we  enter- 
ed. Soon  it  became  more  spacious,  adorn- 
ed with  beautiful  petrifactions  of  various 
shapes  and  sizes.  We  had  not  proceeded 
far,  before  the  passage  became  twenty  feet 
high;  when  tiic  cavern  divided,  forming 
upper  and  lower  apartments.  We  first 
exauiined  the  upper  room. 

Ascending  about  teti  feet,  a  most  strik- 
ing prospect  was  presented  to  our  view;  a 
spacious  room  most  beautifully  ornamented 
on  all  sides.  Here  were  piilars  extend- 
ing to  the  lofty  arch  above;  beautiful 
hangings  of  various  shapes  and  sizes;  and 
alcoves  adorned  with  the  richest  furniture. 
In  this  subterranean  chamber,  we  discover- 
eii  a  vase  four  or  five  feet  in  diameter,  con- 
taiaing  a  quantity  of  cold  fresh  water.  On 
one  side  of  this,  was  a  beautiful  scallop 
si  A  or  eight  inclies  high. 

After  going  some  distance  in  tljis  upper 
apartment  we  returned,  and  pursued  our 
researches  below;  but  otu'  progress  was 
soon  arrested  by  deep  water. 

The  next  day  we  discovered  a  room 
which  escaped  our  notice  yesterday,  and 
which  far  surpassed  every  thing  of  the  kind, 
which  I  had  seen  before.  It  was  as  if 
natiu'e,  impatient  and  weary  of  our  cu- 
riosity, had  tlirowR  open  her  most  secret 
recesses,  and  exposed  to  our  view  the  de- 
lights of  her  heart. 

Crawling  along  under  a  low  place  in  the 
Cavern  I  saw  by  tlie  glimmering  of  the 
torch,  a  room,  about  ten  feet  square,  and 
three  or  four  high,  completely  arched,  and 


5  82-1.  Sii/icrstUious  Obscrvai!ocs....S/,ccc/i  of  an  aged  Indian  Chief. 


ormuiienled  with  Ihe  finest  draperj'. 
Tiie  floor,  wLich  wr.s  perfectly  level, 
M'as  covered  with  scollops  of  various  di- 
mensions and  iieiglits,  some  of  wliich  were 
nearly  filled  with  fresh  water.  Petrifac- 
tions, resembling  spears,  guarded  the  roof 
of  the  avenue.  Under  these  I  crawled, 
and  with  inexpressible  satisfaction  entered 
tijis  palace  of  wonders.  The  hangings 
above  and  on  all  sides,  tlie  vases  below,  in 
short  the  beauty  of  tiie  whole  scene,  en- 
tirely surpas.-f  d  any  description,  wliich  I 
can  give. — yVfler  contemplating  this  pros- 
pect, we  rel raced  our  course  till  we  came 
to  the  mouth  of  the  cavern,  where  of 
''ourse  our  researches  ended. 


SUPERSTITIOl'S      OUSRR\'A?JCES      Oi        THE 
JIVniAXS. 

The  following  account  of  the  precautionary 
Mieasares  taken  by  tlie  Indians  against  pre- 
vailing diseases,  is  extracted  from  a  late  jour- 
nal kept  at  one  of  our  stations. 

The  Conjurer,  or  Doctor,  (of  which 
there  is  one  perhaps  in  every  town,)  when 
an}'  uncommon  disease  appears  in  his  vi- 
cinity, directs  seven  chosen  men  to  go  on 
a  hunting  tour.  Their  orders  are,  to  hunt 
till  they  have  killed  seven  deer.  The 
meat  and  skins  are  to  be  carried  to  an  ap- 
pointed place.  Meanwhile  the  Conjurer 
rises  at  an  early  hour,  and  betakes  himself 
to  the  woods  fasting, — as  also  do  the  hunt- 
ers,— where  he  collects  all  kinds  of  herbs 
and  roots,  that  appear  to  him  to  possess 
any  virtue.  These  are  taken  to  the  place 
appointed  for  the  deer.  After  having  put 
his  physic,  as  he  calls  it,  into  a  large  pot, 
made  of  earth  for  this  purpose,  and  sus- 
pended, with  a  sufficient  quantity  of  water, 
over  a  good  fire,  he  eats;  being  careful 
liiaiself  to  keep  (he  pot  constantly  boiling 
from  tliis  time,  till  all  the  inhabitants  of 
the  town,  who  wish  to  escape  the  dreadful 
disease,  collect. 

The  meat  sought  by  the  liunters,  is  first 
cooked  and  consumed.  Afterward  all  the 
females  old  and  young,  dance  seven  times 
around  a  fire,  the  time  being  beat  on  a  keg, 
or  pan,  by  a  man  appointed  for  the  service. 
Towards  day  all  join  in  dancing,  wlio  are 
big  enough  to  keep  from  being  trodden  un- 
der foot;  except  the  poor  conjurer,  who 
must  strictly  attend  to  his  herbs. 

About  sunrise,  all  partake  freely  of  tliis 
nauseous  composiuon,  and  wash  the  wiiole 
body  in  the  same.  Seven  men  are  then  cho- 
sen to  stay  by  the  pot,  filled  with  fresh  roots 
:ind  herbs,  seven  days  longer,  fasting  every 
day  till  sun-set,  when  victuals  mu?t  be 
carried  to  them.  The  people  then  disperse, 
every  finndy  taking  away  a  iupnlv  <>(  tin. 


decoction,  and  having  librrt}^  to  ap])ly  to 
the  chosen  men  for  more,  any  time  within 
the  seven  days.  When  the  seven  days  are 
passed,  all  meet  again,  and  the  same  cere- 
monies are  observed.  The  Conjurer  hav- 
ing, in  the  mean  time,  provided  a  fresh 
supply  of  medicine,  and  made  it  efficacious 
by  fasting. 

In  the  morning  having  drank  again  freely 

and    washed,    the    Conjurer    [)ronounces 

\\  them  proof  against  the  iirevailmg  disease. 

!    He  then  gives  them  a  short  talk,  in  which 

j    he  tells  how  many  will  die  in  such  a  time, 

h  and  then  all  return  to  their  homes  feeling 

j;  quite    secure.     The   Conjurer  takes,   as  a 

reward  for  his  labors,  the  skins  of  the  deer, 

and  a  string   of  white  beads    from  every 

family,   who  sliare  the  benefit  of  his  ser- 

I    vices. 

If,  in  spite  of  all  (his  labor  and  toil,  the 
disease  continues  to  prevail,  a  very  trilling 
reason  satisfies  the  deluded  multitude.  The 
reason  assigned  for  their  ill  success  here 
last  spring,  when  the  measles  prevailed, 
was,  that  missionaries  had  come  into  (his 
country. 


SPEECH    OF    AN    ACEH    1^'DIAJV    CHIEF. 

The  Indians  have  no  ncwspnpers.  It  is  hence 
no  more  than  just,  that  they  tlioidd  some- 
times bo  allowed  to  spenk  for  themselves, 
through  the  journals  of  other  nations.  We 
therefore  give  a  place  in  our  work  to  a  recent 
speech  of  a  venerable  chief  in  one  of  the 
south-western  tribes.  As  will  readily  be  per- 
ceived, it  was  occasioned  by  the  late  ncgocia- 
il  tions  for  the  cession   of  some    part  of  their 

\  teri'itoiy,  lying  on  this  side  of  the  Mississippi 

'  to  the  United  States. 

This  afternoon  the  old   King,    came  to 
'  make  us  a  visit.     After  calling  for  an  inter- 
I  preter  he  began  to  rekte,  Avitb  apparent  re- 
serve,   some  of  the  decisions    of   the  lato 
Council    against  disjiosing    of    tlieir  laud. 
,  But,  in  a  little  time,  he  became  quite  free. 
■  and  told  us  plainly,  that  he  wvas  afraid  of  the 
:  white  people,  and  distressed   for  his  child- 
\  ren,  (meaning  the  people   of  his  nation.) 
He  desired  to  live  here  while  he  lives;  yet, 
as  he  had  but  liltla  time  to  stay,  it  was  not 
much  matter  on  his  own  account.     Hut  he 
was  night  and  day  grieved  for  his  children, 
wliom    he  should    leave    behind,    lest  the 
'  white  people  would  not  give  them  power 
!  to  live,  and  lest  they  should  be  driven  from 
'  the  earth.     We  endeavored  to  soothe  tl-ie 
old     man,    by    mentioning    some    things, 
which  we  thought  calculated  to  insjiire  a 
confidence,    in      the    government    of   the 
United    States,  particularly  in   their  father 
(hv  rn->=idonl;   and    to  show,  (hut  he    felt 


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Jan- 


toward  them  as  his  children,  <iiid  desired 
their  best  good;  and,  also,  that  almost  all 
the  white  people  considered  thenj  as  brotli- 
ers,  and  wished  to  do  them  good. 

He  replied,  If  we  have  a  little  brother, 
who  is  poor,  and  does  not  know  well  how 
to  take  care  of  himself,  I  do  not  think  it  is 
right  to  trj'  to  get  away  from  hin)  the  little 
all  that  he  has.  I  think  we  should  be  will- 
ing to  have  him  keep  his  little,  and  try  to 
teach  him  how  to  use  it,  that  he  may  be 
better  able  to  take  care  of  himself. — He  ac- 
knowledged that  their  father,  the  President, 
had  alwa3\s  given  tliem  good  talks;  but  he 
did  not  think  they  had  been  well  kept.  He 
then  proceeded  to  give  us  what  he  called 
a  history  of  this  business.  He  said,  that 
President  Washington  agreed  where  the 
line  should  be — had  it  run  and  marked — 
and  told  them  this  should  always  be  the 
line  between  them,  and  the  white  people. 
Soon  after  there  must  be  another  treaty  and 
another  line:  again,  another  treatj^  and 
another  line;  and  so  on; — always  telling] 
them  this  shall  be  the  last  line,  and  always 
using  the  same  reasons,  when  they  wislied 
for  more  land:  viz.  "You  have  more  land 
than  you  want.  You  can  live  much  bet- 
ter, if  you  leave  hunting;  raise  cattle,  hogs, 
«orn,  and  cotton;  make  your  own  clothes, 
and  have  your  bread  and  meat  always  at 
hand.  If  you  do  this,  then  you  will  not 
■want  so  much  land." — This,  he  said,  was 
all  good;  but  many  did  not  at  first  like  it, 
and  the^^  had  great  disputings  about  it. 
Now  they  had  done  with  these  disputes; 
almost  all  were  following  this  advice  of 
their  fathers,  and  could  do  very  well  on  the 
little  land  they  had.  Only  they  wanted 
their  children  instructed  and  trained  to 
work.     Soon  their  children  would  be  men 


and  women;  and  the  nation  wonld  then 
be  rich,  and  happy  on  their  littie  land;  and 
wou!<?  not  repine  for  what  they  had  given 
io  the  United  States.  But  now,  said  he, 
the  white  people  seem  determined  to  take 
this  last  little;  and  are  willing  to  leave  my 
children  to  go  back  into  the  wilderness, 
and  be  lost.  Tiiis  grieves  me  so  that  I  can 
think  of  nothing  else,  only  thit  white  peo- 
ple kill  my  people,  and  no  notice  is  taken 
ofit. 

He  then  gave  in  detail  a  long  list  of  mur- 
ders, which  had  been  committed;  and  the 
murderers  had  not  been  brought  to  justice. 
He  said  four  of  his  own  family  had  been 
murdered  by  white  men  in  time  of  peace, 
and  he  never  could  get  any  satisfaction  for 
it:  that  just  in  that  part  of  the  nation 
where  he  lived,  twelve  persons  had  been 
murdered  by  the  whites,  since  the  Creek- 
war,  and  no  murderer  killed  for  it. 

It  was  not  so  among  red  people.  If  a 
person  of  one  nation  killed  one  of  another, 
they  always  gave  up  the  murderer;  and  if 
an  Indian  of  his  nation  killed  a  white  man, 
they  always  gave  him  up.  He  had  often 
sent  word  to  the  President  about  these 
things.  He  knew  there  were  good  people 
among  the  whites;  but  knowing  all  these 
things  as  he  did,  he  could  not  but  be 
afraid  of  white  people. 

la  subsequent  conversations  on  relig- 
ious subjects,  this  aged  and  venerable  chief 
said, — 'That  when  he  was  young,  he  was 
told  they  went  to  another  country  when  they 
died,  where  were  many  people,  and  great 
towns  and  villages:  bin  that  they  never  talked 
much  about  these  things. 'le  knows  not 
how  they  came  by  the  idea  of  a  future  state;. 


AMERICAN      EDUCATION      SOCIETY. 

Eighth  Report. 

This  well  known  Institution  held  its  eighth  anniversary  on  the  1st  day 
of  October  last.  The  Report  presented  on  that  occasion  has  since  been 
printed;  and  from  it,  in  connexion  with  its  Appendix,  we  shall  now 
compile  the  more  valuable  of  the  notices,  which  the  Directors  have 
given  as  the  result  of  their  experience  and  observation  the  last 
year. 


Origin  of  the  Society. 

As  the  American  Education  Society  was 
among  the  earliest,  in  its  formation;  and 
has  now  become  so  extensive,  in  its  opera- 
tions and  influence,  it  will  not  be  uninter- 
esting to  the  friends  of  the  Society  to  see 
the  germ,  from  which  it  sprung.  The  fol- 
lowing is  a  true  copy  of  the  iirst  and  orijj- 


inal  document,  in  relation  to  its  proceed- 
ings. 

Boston,  June  29,  1815. 
We  the  subscribers,  do  agree,  to  meet, 
at  J.  B.  Winn's,  on  iMonday  evening  next. 
(July  3d)  to  take  into  consideration  the 
expediency  of  forming  ourselves  into  an 
association,    for    the    purpose    of  raisin'g 


1824. 


Eighth  Report  of  the  American  Education  Society. 


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runds,  to  educate  pious  young  men  for  the 
ministry. 

It  is  signed  by  eight  young  men. 

Officers  of  the  Society. 

Hon.  William  Phillips,  President, 

William  Bartlet,  Esq.  Fice  President., 

Rev.  Asa  Eaton  Clerk., 

Aaron  F.  Cleveland,  Esq.   Treasurer., 

Pliny  Cutler,  Esq.  Auditor. 

Rev.  Abiel  Holn.es,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Eben- 
ezer  Turter,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Leonard  Woods, 
D.  b.,  Rev.  Asa  Eaton,  Rev.  Warren 
Eay,  Kfev.  I<u:hard  S.  Storrs,  and  Rev.  B. 
B.  Wisntr,  Directors. 

Receipts  and  Expenditures. 
Tui:  receipts  of  the  year  were  as  follows: 


^6,916  84 
1,057  00 

-  1,9«0  00 
1.573  26 


Donations,         .-.--- 

Aiinua!  suisi'viptions,  .        .        .        - 

LitV  subscriptions,    -       -       -        -        - 
Inici-est,        ------- 

^11,527  10 

The  expenditures  were  these: 
Paid  to  Benenciaries,         .        -        -         -     ;g  10,110  00 
Agencies,  printing,  &c.        .        -         -        -      1,429  30 


The    expenses   at   Bowdoln   College    are 

not  stated.     We  believe,  that  board   is  there 

about  S'l'O  per  week:  tuition,  to  bentficia- 

ries  of  chnritable  societies,  gratuitous;  and  the 

other  expenses  such  as  to  make  the  medium 

;  for  the    common  expenditures,  for  the  year, 

\  about  oi50.     What  would  be  the  cost  of  aa 

!  education    at    the  University    of    Vermont, 

i  Hamilton  College,  Nassau  Hall,  and  other  in- 

I  stitutions  not  named,  we  have  not  the  means 

I  of  ascertaining. 

We  might  easily  show,  that  no  table  of  this 
[  kind  can  be  formed,  -which  shall  exhibit,  with 
perfect  accuracy,  the  comparative  cost  of  au 
I  education  at  the  several  literary  institutions 
'ofour  Cfmtitry.  Suc.b  exhibitions,  however. 
I  as  the  above,  are  not  without  interest  and 
.  value. 

JMoral  j^.'ecpssities  of  the  Country. 

j  The  Report  states,  that,  in  1819,  there 
I  were  481  more  congregations,  than  clergy- 
I  men,  in  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  that 
!  the  evil  has  greatly  increased  since;  that,  ia 
the    Baptist    Denotnination,   in    the    United 


igll,539  30 

On  the  subject  of  funds,  the  Report  says: 

Some  of  the  mc?t  important  auxiliaries  ji  Slates,  there  are  1,036  vacant  churches;  and 

have  grp;itly  fallen   otr,   in   their  contribu-  |j  t,,af_   j^    ^,jg    Protestant  Episcopal  Church, 

tions,  th.  last  year.     Not  long  ^nce,  more  J  ^,^^^^  ^^^  ^^^^^  ^,^^^_  3^,,^  vacant  congregations! 

than  three  thouband  dollars  were    due  for  ,;  ,•  .  , 

r.      „,al    ciihcr^rintinnt-    an,)      T  here  are  no  docu  ments,  fioiu  which  to  ascer- 
arrearages,  on  uuiiuai    suuscnpiioiis,    ami  ii 


the  receipts  of  seven  months   of   the   last 


tain  the  number  of  destitute  congregations  in 


year  v?ere  more  than  tljree  thousand  five  |l  the  Cui, gregati 'jnal  Chnvch,  considered  as  a 
hundred  dollars  les-,  than  the  receipts  of  !!  body.  There  is,  however,  in  many  sections 
the  same  seven  months  of  the  year  before;  j]  of  country,  a  very  great  deaeiency.    In  Vir- 

and   more   than   six.  thousand  dollars  less,  i!    •   .     r      •     .  .i,         •  i  ..•         c 

ana  moic    man    ,i.>.   uu   u  ,,.,„       ,?      einia,  for  instance,   there   is  a    iiopulation  of 

than  the  receipts  ot  the  same  in   1B19.     At  m  *'       '  ,  ,,^,,    ,^„     r        ^         \,       .     ^^ 

iidniiic  I         t-  t.„,^o+    ^.\,\r.U   K=.c      more   than   1,(K)0,(jQO  of  souls,  and  only   2S 

the  same  time,  this   statement,  wnicli  has  '       '  '  ■' 

already  been  exhibited  in  several  of  the  |  Eptsoopal,  and  63  Presbyterian  ministers.  To 
reli^riotis  papers,  has  not  produced  the  ef-  !l  darken  the  pictiu-e,  the  Report  takes  a  pro- 
feet,  which  it  was  fondly  hoped  it  would,      j  spective    view    of  our  increasing  populationj 

and  increasing  deficiency  of  moral  means,  till 


Expenses  of  Beneficiaries. 
FnoM  the  statements  in  the  Appendix,  rela- 
tive to  the  expenses  of  the  beneficiaries  of  the 
Society  in  several  of  the  col  leges,  we  have  pre- 
pared the  fallowing  tabular  view.  It  gives  only 
the  average  expenditure  of  each  beneficiary. 


Colleges. 


.i. 

- 

J* 

.2 

~ 

"S^ 

■5;     ;;;^ 

s 

^ 

1 

1§  ~ 

•J 

Uarimuiitli, 

Middlebury, 

Union, 

Williams, 

Amhci-st, 

Yale. 

IJruwn, 

IlSi-vrfvd, 


11,38' 
1,22 
1,47 
1,20 
1,05 
1,65' 
1,26 
1,93 


31,')3 
20,00 
31,97 
24,14 
prat. 
20,75 
15,62 
35,10 


16.73 
12,44 
27,40 
16,4a 
11,10 
29,12 
23,48 
32,76 


32,38112,42 
18,51  7,40 
45,S7  9,63 
57,721 12,33 
24,42 
26,57 


20,28 

49.71 


i3,2'3 
9,05 
28,54 
10,89 
le.lOil 3,14 
14,99  18,63 
10,15  7,56 
23.06124,73 


151,07 
106,22 
200,06 
101,71 
112,92 
180.16 
151,03 
251,55 


we  are  almost  ready  to  predict  the  general 
previilence  of  heatlienism,  in  the  twentieth 
century,  rather  tlian  of  the  Gospel  of  Jesus 
Christ.  One  would  think  the  present  want  of 
the  nunistry  in  our  country,  — to  s.iy  notliing 
of  other  countries, — enough,  when  reiterated, 
as  it  has  been,  from  every  quarter,  to  wake 
from  the  deepest  sleep  all  who  possess  a  single 
spark  of  love  for  God  or  man. 

jVumber  of  young  men  ivho  have   t>een  pat- 
ronized by  Education  Societies. 

But  what  prospect  is  there  of  supplying 
these  hundreds  of  desolate  vineyards  witit 
men  to  cultivate  them?  The  Report  ex- 
hibits the  number  of  students,  which  have 
already  been  received  under  the  pat:-onage  of 
our  Education  Sncietip": 


16 


Vievo  of  Colleges. ..■.,.-Sjieech  of  John  Bacon.,  Esq- 


Maine  Eianc!i  of  American  Education  Society,  -  13 
Union  Ecluealion  Society,  N.  H.  and  Vt.  -  -  14 
North  West  Branch  of  Amer.  Education  So.  -  42 
Massachusetts  Benev.  Education  Society,  -  14 
Massachusetts  Baptist  Education  Society,  -  -  IS 
AVorccstt  V  and  Hampshire  Co.  Ed.  Soc's.  unknoxm. 
Connecticut  Education  Society,  -.  -  morethaji40 
Presbyterian  Education  Society,  New  York,  -  102 
Baptist  Ediu-.ttiou  Society,  New  York,  -  -  -32 
Philadelphia  Education  Society,  -  -  -  35 
American  Education  Society,         .        .        -        .  414 

■\Vhole  number  as  stated  above,    -       -        -       -     721 

Froin  the  Apenchx,  we  extract  tlic  follow- 
ing view  of  the  Colleges  in  September  1823, 
<3onsi(lerabl_v  abridjjed. 


•H 

) 

"S 

g 

s 

;2 

t^ 

a; 

» 

c 

3 

'■S. 

'S^ 

c 

u 

■-5 

^ 

5^ 

■^ 

--» 

;^ 

S: 

:a 

b. 

u 

2- 

Vale  Coi.cgt, Connecticut, 

373,115  13iOi73  30  23 

Harvard  University,  Ms. 

302      9  1740  3^ 

4 

4 

Union,  New  York, 

234    65  1820  67 

25 

17 

Transy'.vania  Univei-sity,  Ken. 

221     16            32 

Nortli  Carolina  University, 

160      6 

Brown  Universitj',  R.  I. 

155    3011820  28  15 

10 

Dartmouth,  New  Hampshire, 

13?    63  1821  j34  32 

21 

Nassau  Hall,  New  -Jei-sey, 

127     18  1321 ,67  25 

17 

Columbia,  New  York, 

123                  (29 

Bowdoin,  Maine. 

120  20  isn  31 

5 

6 

South  Carolina  College, 

120 

Georgia  Univei-sity, 

120      8'           21 

2 

Hamilton,  New  York, 

107    45  1820'34i   8 

18 

Ham.  Sidney.  Virginia, 

104    24 

1822  14; 

6 

Jefferson,  Pennsylvania, 

lOv. 

23 

15, 

Amhei-st,  Massachusetts, 

98 

SO 

13231  41  31  4 

Jliddlebuiy,  Veriiiont, 

87 

53  lS21il8'15lll 

Williams,  Massachusetts, 

78 

3911819 

7 

4 

3 

Dickinson,  Pennsylvania, 

75 

40 

19 

17 

Ohio  University. 

70 

Columbian,  Dist.  Columbia, 

62     18|_... 

Washington.  Virginia. 

60 

1822 

Greenville,  Tennessee, 

50 

Vermont  University, 

42 

10 

8 

2 

8 

AVaten-ille,  Maine, 

21 

11 

3 

3 

Western  Un-iversity,  Peun. 

15 

3 

3 

,163  703      546.163.173 


There  are  Religion?  or  Benevolent  Soci- 
eties, in  Bowdoin,  Miridlebury,  Williams, 
Brown,  Hamilton  and  Princeton. 

There  are  Bible  and  Tract  Societies,  in 
Dartmouth,  Yale,  Union  and  Princeton. 

There  are  Societies  of  Inquiry  respecting 
Missions,  in  Dartmouth,  MiddJehury,  Wil- 
liams, Amherst,  and  Yale  Colleges;  and  in 
Vermont  University. 

The  Sabbath  Morning  Concert  of  prayer 
for  the  Colleges,  is  observed  in  Bowdoin, 
Dartmouth,  Middlebury,  Williams,  Am- 
herst, Yale  and  Hamilton  Colleges;  and  in 
\'ermont  and  Brown  Universities. 

There  are  Classical  Libraries  for  indigent 
students  in  Bowdoin,  Dartmouth,  Middle- 
bury,  Williams,  Amherst,  Yale,  Union, 
Hamilton  and  Princeton  Colleges;  and  in 
Harvard  and   Brown  Universities. 

Through  the  influence  of  Revivals  and 
Education    Societies,  at  least   three    hun- 


dred and  fifty  pious  young  men  in  our 
Theological  Seminaries;  seven  hundred 
and  eight,  in  our  Colleges;  and  more  than 
two  hundred,  in  our  Academies;  amount- 
ing to  twelve  hundred  and  fifty  eight,  are 
pursuing  their  studies,  who  will  ])robably 
become  ministers  of  the  Gospel; — which  is 
a  greater  number  than  were  educated  for 
the  ministry  in  thirty  years  previous  to 
1810. 


'^%z  ^tjSjeiionarg  Cauise. 

Speech  of  John  Bacon,  Esq.  at  (he  Anni- 
versary of  the    Wesleyan  Mission- 
ary Satiety,  J\Iay  5,  1823. 

I  BE(}  to  apologize  for  commencing  with  a 
personal  allusion  to  myself;  but  repeated  ill- 
ness lately,  antl  much  medicine,  have  so  de- 
spoiled me  of  the  few  nerves  which  I  once 
possessed,  that,  were  it  not  for  a  promise 
given,  I  should  plead  to  be  excused,  as  unfit 
to  address  this  vast  assembly.  I  thought  it 
best  to  mention  this,  in  order  to  secui-e  yout" 
indulgence,  if  I  should  be  obliged  to  stop  short 
and  resume  my  seat;  in  which  case,  1  hope 
you  will  accept  the  will  for  the  deed. 

However,  I  am  happy  that  in  that  blessed 
work,  and  that  glorious  contest,  in  which  we 
are  engaged  in  this  day  of  unexampled  Chris- 
tian exertion,  'the  race  is   not'  esclu>ively  'to 
the  swift,  nor  the  battle   to  the  strong.'     In- 
deed, on  finding  that  your  muster  of  auxiliary 
forces  to-day  included  so  humble  an  individual 
as  myself,  I  conjectured  that  our  worthy  com- 
mander in  [he  Chair  was  about,  for  once,  to 
ilispfiise  with  the  usual  mode  of  warfare,  and 
to  try,  like  Gitleon  of  old,  what  he  could  ef- 
fect merely  with  his  pitchers  and  lamps. 
The  li  story  of  Gideon  by  the  by,  1  have  been 
'  thinking,  is  fraught  with  encouragement  for  us 
all  in  our  confl  cts,  at  home  and  abroad,  vvith 
the  forces  of  infidelity,  superstition,  and  blas- 
phemy.    If  the  Lord  of  Hosts   be  with   us, 
then  slhall  a  mere  'cake  of  barley  bread,'  tiim- 
\  bling  into   the   hosts    of  our   enemies,  smile 
their  tents  and   put  their  army  to  flight.     If 
;  this   be  encouragement   for  the  feeblest    in- 
strument among  us,  with  what  cheerful  confi- 
I  dence  may  it  be  said  to  such   an   one   as  our 
leader  on    the  present  occasion,  as  the  angel 
did  to  Gideon,  "Go  on   and   prosper"  in  this 
•  transcendently    iraportaut    work,     ''for    ihe 
Lord  is  with  thee,  thou  miglity  man  of  valor." 
'•      This  I  say,  not   merely  to  your  Chairman, 
but  to  all  your    Missionaries   and   preachers, 
j  and  to  your  society  in  general;    and  I   say  it 
;  with  double  pleasure,  as  being  myself,  by   ed- 
■  ucHtiou   and    attachment,  a   member  of   the 
;  Church  of  England. 

I  Wesleyans,  I  am  aware,  are  not  to  be  ac- 
'  counted  dissenters;  yet  there  is  evidently  a 
i  shade  of  distinctioti  between  you  and  iis 
i  Churchfolks  of  a  more  inflexible  description, 
'  — at  least,  suflicient  to  authorize  my  saying 
i  that  you  are,  perhaps,  of  Paul,  and  we  of 
i  A'pollos. — Well,  sir,  let  it  be  so,  I  have  no 
;  d.aibt,  if  Paul  had  taken  the  Chair  at  a  Mis- 
;  sionaiy  meeting,  (and  I  am  fur  from  being 
sure  lltat  he  never  did,}  tiie  disciples  of  Ap- 


I 


1824. 


Sjicech  of  John  Bacon,  Esq. 


17 


OLI.03,  I  will  answer  for  it,  would  very  cheer- 
rally  have  filled  up  half  liis  plalform,  and 
wuuld  have  joined,  con  amore,  in  all  liis  mo- 
tions and  resolutioiis  for  dissemiualing  the 
everlasting  Gospel,  wheresoever  an(i  hy 
whomsoever  it  might  have  been  preached. 
And  I  say,  Sir,  let  a  salutary  shame  and  eon- 
•  iision  of  face  cover  that  professing  Christian 
wiio  cannot  rejoice  in  the  si)read  of  the  Ue- 
DKE.MEn's  kingdom,  unhss  it  be  effected  by 
means  of  v,  hat  iie  may  consider  to  be  his  own 
religious  denomination. — Not  so  with  our 
coramon  Loi'd  and  .\i aster: — no  sectarian 
spirit  contracted  llie  benevolence  tliat  glowad 
within  his  sacred  breast:  He  came,  indeed, 
to  his  own;  but,  as  ids  own  received  hin\ 
not,  what  would  have  been  our  condition  at 
the  present  moraent,  if  he  had  said,  'From 
henceforth,  as  the  Jews  have  no  dealings  with 
the  Saraavitaub,  neither  will  1  concern  my- 
self with  the  spiritual  wants  and  calamities 
of  the  Gentile  world!'  Does  any  one  com- 
plain to  us  who  are  Episcopalians  in  this  as- 
sembly, and  say,  in  language  similar  to  that 
acldressed  to  iVlosES, — 'I'hese  Wesleyan 
Christians  are  appointing  Missionaries,  and 
yiofthtsying  in  the  camp:  let  us  foibid  them, 
lor  tliey  follow  not  in  all  respects  with  usP' 
I  can  answer  for  myself  and  n\)  brethren  of 
the  Church  here  present,  that  we  should  one 
and  all  spontaneousf.  txclaim  as  Moses  did. 
'Enviest  thou  foi'  oui-  sak.es?  would  to  Goij 
that  all  the  IjOKd's  people  were  prophets, 
and  that  he  would  put  his  SriJiiT  upon 
them.' 

These  feelings,  on  our  part,  are  due  to  our 
Christian  Brethren,  of"  other  denominations, 
as  their  liberality  in  these  matters  towards 
the  Church  has  ever  been  conspicuous.  I 
frankly  confess  that  I  have  known  certain 
Churchmen  who  have  had  their  hesitations 
respecting  Dissenting  Societies;  but  1  never 
met  with  a  Dissenter  who  did  not  wish  well 
to  every  Christian  Society  connected  with 
the  Church.  In  fairness,  however,  I  should 
add,  that  tlie  Churchmen  I  liave  referred  to, 
have  generally  objected  to  all  Christian  Socie 
ties  (o7(e,  perhaps,  alone  excepted)  Uelonging 
to  as  well  as  distinct  from  the  Church.  But 
of  those  who  are  in  my  estimation  Church- 
men in  deed  and  in  truth, — that  is,  Cluircli- 
men  paying  defei'ence,  not  merely  to  the  for- 
malities, but  to  the  vital  injunctions  of  their 
Vrayer-Books,  I  do  not  know  one  w  ho  would 
not  say,  '  So  that  Ckiiist  be  preacheil, — by 
^^homsoever, — therein  I  do  rej'iice,  jea,  and 
I  will  rejoice.' 

Having  touched  on  these  points,  I  may, 
peihaps,  be  allowed  to  refer  to  the  formation 
of  a  Church  Missionaiy  Association,  lately,  in 
the  place  where  1  at  present  reside,  not  a  doz- 
en laihs  from  town.  It  so  happens  that  we 
have  no  less  than  five  Clergymen  resident  in 
the  place;  but  they  are  so  possessed  with  the 
absurd  notion  that  the  Chui-h  Missionaiy 
Society  has  a  seasoning  of  dissent  in  its  com- 
l)osition,  that  we  have  not  been  able  to  ob- 
tain their  concurrence  in  our  object;  and  this 
lias  prevented  many,  who  plume  themselves 
upon  tJieir  Churchn)anship,  from  supporting 
onr  unexceptionable  Church  Society.  Iti  con- 
trast, however,  to  this  confined  and  jealoifs 
principle,  and  to  display  (he  beauty  of  a  tiu- 

vni,.  XX.  * 


ly  enlarged  and  liberal  heart,  I  relate  the  cir- 
cumstance,— that  one  of  our  kind  and  zealous 
Ladies,  w  ho  undertook  to  canvass  the  [jlace 
for  subscriptims,  called  on  a  pious  tratlesman 
in  llie  town  who  is  not  a  Churchman.  On 
enleiing,  she  said,  '1  wait  on  you.  Sir,  from 
the  Church  Missionary  Society  lately  estab- 
lished here,  because  1  have  undertaken  lo  call 
at  every  house  in  my  division;  but  as  I  be. 
lieve  you  are  not  a  Churchman,  I  cannot  ])re- 
sume  to  calculate  upon  your  subscription; 
and,  though  we  ai-e  happy  to  receive  support 
from  any  one,  I  ought  not,  peiha[>s,  to  ex- 
pect it  from  you;  and,  therefore,  having  ful- 
filled my  engMgement  by  calling,  I  will  now 
cheerfully  take  my  leave.'  'Stop,  .Madam,' 
said  he,  'I  cannot  suffer  you  to  go  away 
thus.  It  is  true,'  he  added,  'we  have  a  .Mis- 
sionary Society  of  otir  own;  but  when  I  con- 
sider how  long  I  have  lived  in  this  place,  and 
how  little,  comparatively,  has  hern  done  here 
in  a  religious  |)oint  of  view  until  the  forma, 
tion  of  your  Missionary  Society,  1  am  truly 
thankful  to  Gou  for  his  goothiess;  and  you 
shall  take  the  names  of  my  wife  and  daugli- 
ter  as  humble,  but  cheei-ful  contributors.' 
While  he  yet  spake,  'the  springs  which  were 
in  his  head,'  (as  John  Buny.vn  says  of  his 
Pilgrim  while  gazing  at  the  cross;)  'the 
springs  which  were  in  Iiis  head  did  send  the 
waters  down  his  cheeks;'  and  he  thus  gave 
evidence  of  the  reality  of  that  Christian  prin- 
ciple which  ])ossessed  and  erdarged  his  heart. 
You  recollect  that  our  Satjou,  after  relat- 
ing ail  interesting  anecdote  respecting  a  cer- 
tain benevolent  and  noble-minded  character, 
added,  'and  he  was  a  Samaritan.'  In  like 
manner,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen,  allow  me  to 
say, — Thus  and  thus,  as  I  have  related,  did 
this  nobleminded  Christian,  just  referred  to, — 
and  he  was  a  IVesleyan.  1  shall  not,  howev- 
er, do  justice  to  my  story,  or  to  the  Cliurch 
of  England,  if  I  do  not  mention  that  the  La- 
dy referred  to,  after  receiving  the  good  njan's 
subscription,  said,  'Now,  Sir,  as  you  have 
been  so  kind  and  liberal  towards  our  Society, 
you  must  allow  me  to  give  you  a  testimony 
of  my  good  will  towards  yours.'  On  whicii 
she  insisted  upon  his  accepting  a  present  from 
her  own  purse  for  the  Wesleyan  Missionary 
Society. 

It  is  remarkable  that  an  accusation  bronght 
against  us  by  one  of  the  five  Clergymen  I 
have  referred  to,  was,  that  by  instituting  our 
Missionary  Society,  v/e  have  raised  a 'bad 
spirit'  in  the  place.  Now,  if  what  1  have  re- 
lated as  having  occurred  between  this  Lady 
and  the  Morthy  tradesman  be  an  example  of 
tlie  bad  spirit  referred  to,  it  must  be  one  of  so 
peculiar  a  kind,  that  I  am  bad  enough  myself 
to  wish  that  the  said  evil  spirit  would  go  and 
take  to  himself  seven  other  spirits,  by  the 
same  rule  as  bad.  and  as  much  worse  than 
himself  as  he  pleases,  aud  return  to  dwell 
amongst  us:  and  I  heartily  wish  that,  by  the 
same  inverse  princi[ile  of  calculation,  our  last 
stale  may  be  a  great  deal  worse  than  the  first. 

Having  thus  bet_n  engaged  in  Missionary 
exertions  where  we  have  had  to  encounter  a 
measure  of  opposition  and  dislike,  you  will 
easily  give  credit  to  my  declaration  of  the  pe- 
culiar pleasure  I  have  felt  at  the  idea  of  at- 
tending the  present  nlecting.  'i'here,  1  said, 
3 


13 


Sjieech  of  John  Bacon,  Esq. 


Jan 


I  shall  join  an  assembly  of  ray  fellow-Chris- 
tiaris,  where  we  sliali  all  be  of  one  heart  and 
of  one  mind. — There  the  stream,  or  rather 
the  broad  and  deep  river,  of  Christian  philan- 
thropy will  flow  with  majestic  freedom  and 
rapidity  into  the  fathomless  ocean  of  unre- 
stricted liberality  a/id  good-will  towards  all 
mankdid.  And  while  thus  contemplating  the 
pleasure  of  being  in  the  society  of  friends  who 
entertain  the  same  views  and  feelings  witii 
myself,  1  could  not  but  be  elated  with  the 
thought, —  VVhat  a  goodly  company  of  Pa- 
trtarchs,  Prophets,  and  Apostles,  we  Mis- 
sionary enthusiasts  may  fairly  contend  we  be- 
long to;  and  who,  it  would  not  be  difficult  to 
prove,  were,  in  reality,  enihusiasls  of  the 
very  same  description  with  ourselves!  Time 
would  fail  to  refer  to  a  tenth  of  them;  but  to 
instance  only  an  example  or  two: — Whs  it 
not  because  the  heart  of  Abraham  oveiflovved 
Avith  zf-al  for  the  conversion  of  all  mankind, 
that  the  Ai.HiGHTr  condescended  to  cheer 
him  With  the  animating  assurance,  'In  thee, 
and  in  thy  Seed  sluill  all  the  families  of  the 
earth  be  blessedi"  And  what  was  the  chief 
support  of  the  venerable  Jacob  while  sinking 
in  the  arms  of  deatb.' — Was  it  not  the  pro- 
phetic foresight  with  which  he  was  favored 
of  that  transcendently  important  event,  that, 
in  the  royal  line  of  Judaii,  the  heavenly  Sai- 
lOH  should  make  his  appearance;  respecting 
■whnifl,  with  joyful,  though  distiint  anticipa- 
tion, he  exclaims, — 'Unto  Him  shall  the  ga- 
thering of  the  people  be?'  And  as  i'or  King 
David,  if  the  assertion  of  our  friends  be  true, 
thnt  'Missionary  zeal  doth  make  us  mad,' 
know  not  what  lunatic  asylnm  they  would 
have  considered  secure  for  the  confi'iement 
of  that  enthusiastic  Prince;  seeins;  that  noth- 
ing less  would  satisfy  him  than  that  the  light 
of  divine  truth  should  be  diffused  thioughout 
the  universe,  and  that  every  region  of  the 
earth  should  behold  the  Rkdeemeh's  glory. 

Peace,  then,  be  to  the  remains,  and  thanks 
to  the  prayers,  of  those  holy  saints  of  old:  the 
whole  world  stands  indebted  to  them  at  the 
present  moment;  and  aurely,  of  all  the  na- 
tions thereof.  Great  Britain  not  the  least. — 
What  gratitude  does  it  become  us  to  feel,  as 
Christians,  as  Protestants,  and  as  British  sub. 
jects,  on  occasion  of  that  sacred  festival, — 
that  'feast  of  weeks,'  if  I  may  so  call  it, — 
with  which  the  religious  part  of  the  commu- 
nity are  annually  favored  in  our  Metropolis  at 
this  interesting  period.  It  has  doubtless  been 
impossible  tor  us  to  look  forward  to  the  sea- 
son, without  feelings  of  the  most  pleasing  an- 
ticipation, and  a  measure,  probably,  of  trium- 
phant joy.  But  may  I  express  a  hope,  that 
although  our  hearts  cannot  do  otherwise  than 
bnrn  within  ns  while  we  are  thus  encouraged 
and  refreshed  by  the  way,  yet  that  our  feel- 
ing may  be  a  chastised  and  sacred  feeling; — 
not  merely  the  rigings  of  animi!  efferves- 
cence,— but  a  feeling  which,  while  we  re- 
joice and  triumph,  constrains  us  to  gloritV  Gon 
for  his  kindness  towards  us,  and  for  the  won- 
derful works  which,  by  our  instrnmeniality, 
he  is  now  performing  among  the  children  of 
men.  Dui-ing  the  past  week,  I  liave  f  It,  as 
though  the  Almighty  Jehovah,  the  Gon  of 
the  true  Israel  in  this  land,  were  saying  to  us, 
as  he  did  to  Israel  of  old, — 'Now  go  and  sanc- 


tify yourselves,  for  in  the  next  weekis  a  holy 
convocation  before  the  Loud.' — And  when 
we  do  hold  these  convocations  in  a  right  spir- 
it, are  tliey  not  privileged  seasons  indeed.' — 
enjoyments  which,  when  we  have  felt  and 
tasted,  we  justly  say,  that  not  the  half  was 
told  us.  Nay,  shall  I  '^o  too  far  if  I  appeal  to 
many  christian  friends  in  this  assembly,  and 
ask  whether  their  feelings  have  not  on  inese 
occasions  frequyntly  resembled  those  which 
we  lake  for  granted  glowed  in  the  breasts  of 
MosKS,  Aarox,  Nabad,  Ab;hu,  and  the  sev» 
enty  elders  of  Israel,  when,  by  the  divine  per- 
mission, they  left  the  busy  camp  in  the  val- 
ley beneath,  and  ascended  the  mount  of  com- 
munion, where  it  is  said  that,  while  they  ate> 
and  drank,  they  'beheld  the  God  of  Israel, 
under  whose  feet  was  a  paved  work  resem- 
bling the  sapphire  stone,  and  as  it  were  the 
body  of  heaven  in  its  clearness'''  Have  you 
not  frequently  expijrienced  upon  these  'de- 
lectable mountains'  a  fulfilment  of  the  poeti- 
cal declaration, — 

Eternal  wisdom  hath  piepar'd 
A  soul-reviving  feast; 

and  found  it,  indeed,  a  'feast  of  fat  things,  and 
of  wines  on  the  lees  well  refined.""  And 
while  thus  regaling  yourselves  with  sacred 
enjoyments,  have  you  not  sometimes  had  rea- 
son to  trust  you  were  sensible  of  Jehovah's 
presence.''  And  contemplating  that  wonderful 
transformation  which  has  taken  place  in  the 
moral  image  of  man  in  various  parts  of  the 
woild  in  this  day  of  Gospel  light  and  Mission- 
ary  activity,  may  we  not  behold,  indisputably, 
as  the  b'ldy  of  heaven  in  its  clearness,  the  im- 
age of  the  otherwise  invisible  Gon  portrayed 
ui)on  the  besom  of  the  earth,  as  certainly  as 
it  was  repeated  in  the  lucid  mirror  which 
blazed  beneath  his  foot,  and  reflected  forth 
his  glory? 

Blessed  be  God  that  these  are  not  merely 
figurative  allusions,  with  which  we  may 
please  the  fancy,  but  substantial,  indisputable 
blessings,  realized  in  the  happy  experience  of 
millions  whose  faces  we  shall  never  see  in  the 
flesh,  but  whose  \\\)s  are  daily  blessing  God 
for  having  put  it  into  the  hearts  of  British 
Christians, — Churchmen,  Independents,  Mo- 
ravians, Baptists,  Wesleyans,  and  others, — 
to  convey  to  them  the  knowledge  of  the  Gos- 
pel; and  whose  triumphant  shouts  of  praise  to 
redeeming  grace  we  trust,  through  the  same 
Redemption,  will  salute  our  ears,  when  all 
the  spiritual  worshi[)pers  of  Gon  throughout 
the  habitable  globe,  and  from  the  beginning 
to  the  end  of  time,  sh  ill  have  joined  the  gen- 
eral assembly  and  church  of  the  first-born 
whose  names  are  written  in  heaven. 

It  may  not  be  amiss  to  add,  that,  both  in 
England  and  Scotland,  the  efforts  to  supply 
the  world  with  Christian  instruction,  have 
been  the  means  of  augmenting  very  much, 
the  harmony  of  different  denominations  of 
Christians.  Charity  for  the  heathen,  rising 
to  the  ascendency  among  the  various  sects, 
has  presented  a  great  common  object,  in  the 
pursuit  of  which  they  have  almost  lost  sight 
of  the  minor  points,  about  which  Ihey  oner, 
found  leisure  to  contend. 


1824. 


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Almond,  N.  Y.  Coll.  by  Rev.  R.   Hubbard, 6; 

Fern.  Char.  Su.  14  ,    b)  C.  Hurlbut,  Ksq. 
Amherst,  Ms.   Miss.  So.  Ji'   AnilKrsi   Acad,  for 

Gerard  H.  Hallock  in  Cej  Ion,  by  Mr.  F.  Har- 

ringioii,  1  r. 
Attieburougn,  Ms.  Fern.  Aux.  for  miss.  so.  by 

Miss  R.  Alien,  Tr. 
Augusta,  N.  Y.  1st  Cong.  So.  mon.  con.  by  Dea. 

A.  TliO'i'as. 
Mallston.  >'.  \'.  Fein.  Hea.  Sch.  So.  for  David 

Brcuncrd  in  Ceylon,  15;  fur  Bimnerd  miss. 

15;  by  Miss  E.  Raymond,  Tr.  30    00 

Bath,  Me.  Noi-tli  and  South  Par.  mon.  con.  (one 

dollar  of  which  for  Chapel  at  Bombay)  by 

Rev.  J.   W.  EUingwood,  23,  25;  Fem.  liLa. 

sch.   so.  for  Nancy  Eidiigwood  in  Ceylon, 


19  00 


16  00 


Miss 


46  25 


J.  T.  Spragiie,  1  r.  bj  Uo.  23; 

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by  Mr.  S.  A.  Worcester,  19,66,  22  66 

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Bond,  ■  1  25 

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so.  &  m.  f.  36,50;  Cent  so.  2,50;  ch!i.  miss, 
box,  2;  Mis.  M.  Eastoi;, /-"t/f )/am,  N.  Y.  1;  by 
Mr.  J.Clavk,  Stc.  42  00 

Beverly,  Ms.  Fem.  Wes.  mis.  so.  by  Mrs.  A.  Lo- 
vett,  50;  mon.  eon.  in  third  cong.  So.  by 
Rev.  P.  D.  Oliphant,  32,94;  Fem.  Jeus 
So.  for  the  Jews,  4C;  for  the  Scriptures, 
1,50,  by  do.  124  44 

Boston,  iMs.  United  mon.  con.  for  Pal.  miss.  52  53 
Eight  young  men  of  "  Old  South  So."  4th 
pay.  for  E.  B.  IVisner,  at  BraiiR  rd,  b)  Mr.  C. 
Stoddard,  15;  Miss  Jeweit,  for  Greek  tracts 
for  ilistrib.  1;  children  in  a  small  school  in 
Hancock  Strtet,  1;  Coll.  in  2d  Methodist 
chapel  in  Brcmfield's  lane,  after  addi  ess  by 
Mr.  D.  Brow  n,  for  schools  among  the  Chero- 
kees,  27,43;  Mrs.  H.  Lee,  for  do.  by  do.  5;  a 
friend,  1,50;  Mr.  Andrew  Bradslia«  ,  -d  an. 
pay.  for  Hannah  Franklin  Bradshaiv  at 
May  hew,  30,  SO  93 

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Miss  E.  Andrews,  'Jr.  12  OC 

Brattleboro,  Vt.  Mr.  D.  Carx)enter,  by  Rev.  J.  L. 

Starks,  3  00 

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Tower,  Cher.  na.  by  Miss.  H.  Stebbins,      16  00 

Bristol,  R.  I.  Coll.  m  Rtv.  Mr.  Mann's  Meet- 
ing house,after  address  by  Mr.  D.  Brown, 
forschools  among  the  Cheroktes.  20,46;  miss, 
asso.  of  ehil.foi  West.  miss,  by  Rev.  J.  Mann, 
2;  Fem.  pniv.  So.  2;  by  do.  24  46 

Buffalo,  N.  \.  m'iss  .M.  Cotton,  5;  a  friend  1;  Be- 
nev.  So  .coll.  at  luon.  con.  10,  67.  by  Mr.  A. 
Bryant,  15  07 

Cambridfre,  Ms.  Coll.  at  Rev.  Doct.  Holmes' 
meetnip;  house,  for  schools  among  the  Chero- 
kei  s,  alter  an  addiess  by  Mr.  D,  Brown,         57  64 

Camden,  N.  Y.  mon.  con.  by  Uea.  A.  Thomas,     1  75 

Carver,  Ms.  Hca. friend  so.  by  Mr.  E.  Collier,       13  00 

Charlestown,  Ms.  Mr.   B.  Brown,  by  Mr.  D. 

Brown,  3  00 

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Tr.  8  11 

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Mrs.  L.  Byam,  Tr.  12  uO 

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A's.  sch.  for  sch.  at  Elliot,  64  c.  by  Mary  F. 
Stevens.  12  89 

Clinton,  N.  Y.  C.  S.  Parmerly,  Jiin.  fored.  hea. 

chil.  by  Uea.  A.  Thomas,  50 

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R.  Livingston,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Porter,  20  00 

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man,  1  25 

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by  Rev.  S.  Paiker,  45  03 

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Haven,  '  I';  45 


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meeting  house  for  schools  among  the  Chero- 
ktes,  after  address  by  Mr.  D.  Brown,  57,43; 
mon.  con.  in  2d  par.  by  Rev.  Dr.  Codman, 
22,50. 

DracM,  Ms.(lst  Par.)  mon.  con.  liy  Rev.  J.  Jler- 

rill, 
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Dunstable.  Ms.  niei»'s  so.  for  prop.  Chris,  know, 
by  Dea.  J.  Taylor,  I'r. 

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bet, 

East  Haddam,  ]\Is.  Fem.  Dona.  So.  by  Sarah  B. 
Parsons,  Supt. 

Fairfeld,  Ct.  Ladies  so.  by  Miss  E.  Hull,  Tr. 

Farimngton,  CL  \oiuig  Ladies  mite  so.  by  Miss 
A.Hunt,  Tr. 

Franklin.  N.  Y.  Pal.  Miss.  so.  for  Pal.  miss,  by 
Rev.  Dr.  Porter. 

Gilmanton,  K.  H.  Ladies    Jews    Society    for 
Jewish  chil.  at  Bombay,  by  Mrs.  F.  Moody, 
Tr. 
Glastenbury,  Ct.  Fem.  cent  so.  Betsey  Hale, 
Tr.  24;  mon.  con.  50;  by  Rev.  C.  Burgc, 

Halil'ax-,  Vt.  Fem.  Char.  so.  Mrs.  M.  F.  AVoods, 
'Tx.  19,22;  m.  f.  by  Mr.  O.  Woodsworth,  12, 
34. 

Hatlouell,  Me.  Tilr.  E.   Bond,  fam.  miss.  box. 

Hamilton,  X.  Y.  Mrs.  Hubbard,  by  Dea.  A.  Tho- 
mas, 

Hampshire  Chr.  Dep.  Northampton,  Ms.  m.  f, 
33,50;  Nor-wich,  fem.  char.  so.  1,02;  South- 
ampton, a  female.  2; 
Gen.  agency.of  hamp.  clir.  depos.  formiss.Her. 
viz. 

Chesterfield,  Rev.  J.  Waters.  5,74;  Comva'j,  Mr. 
J.  Williams  3.09;  Goshen.  Miss  E.  Mav, 
1,03;  Rev.  .1  Wnght,  3,97;  Northampto'n, 
Mr  D.  S.  Whitney,  16,38;  vol.  of  Miss.  her. 
1,50;  Noncich,  Mr.  R.  Kail,  4,41;  Southamp- 
ton, Mr.  E.  Edwards,  Jun.  8.38:  South  Had- 
Icij,  Ml.  P.  Allen,  11,03;  'test  Hampton, 
Rev.  E.  Hale,  11,91;  li  illiamsburgh.  Rev. 
H.  Lord,  6.18; 

Hanover.  N.  Y.  m.  f.  by  Dea.  A.  Thomas, 

Hanover,  N.  J.  Fem.  mite  so.~for  Aaron  Con- 
dit  in  Ceylon,  bv  Rev.  A.  Condit, 

Harpersfeld,  K.  Y.'Mr.  R.  Newell,  by  Rev.  Dr. 
Porter, 

Hard-wick,  Vt.  Crnftsbury,  Grcensborough,imd 
ll'atden. muu.  con.  by  K.  Strong,  Esq.  11,46; 
E.  Strong.  Esq.  10; 

Harrisbursrh,  Pa.  Julia  Anna  So.  by  Rev.  W. 
R.  De  Witt, 

Haverhill.  Ms.  Fem.  asso.  by  Mrs.  S.  Gale,  Tr. 

Heath,  Ms.  Union  so.  by  Mr,  T.  B.  Harrington, 
Ir. 

Hebron,  N.  H.  Mr.  S.  Goodhue, 

Hillsborough  Co.  N.  H.  Fi  m.  bencv,  so,  3d  an. 
pay,  foiJohn  Barnes  La7i'ton,ij\  Ceylon,  by 
Miss  S,  S\  monds. 
Bible  and  t'hai-,  so,  Mr,  R.  Boy'ston,  Tr,  Fein, 
cent.  so.  in  Te^uple,  by  Miss  L.  W.  Cuiu- 
mings,  26,56;  an.  sub.  12,80,  Capt.  J,  Shep- 
herd of /iiii/icw^,  by  Mr,  S,  A,  Worcester, 
6,25;  Contrib.  in  Amherst  on  Thanksgiv. 
day,  by  do,  43; 

Holdcn,  Ms.  Mon   con.  by  Mr,  J,  Crcsbv, 

Holies.  N.  K.  H.  Worcester,  by  Mr,  S."  A.  Wor- 
cester, 1;  J.  Worcester's  fain,  a  contrib,  on 
tliaiili.  day,  by  do,  1,77, 

Juhnitotcn.  (Ringsborough)  N.  Y.  mon,  con.  by 
Rev.  E.  Yale, 

Jonesborough,  I'en.  Fem.  nux.  so,  40;  a  friend, 
12;  by  Rev.  D.  A.  Sherman, 

Kcene,  N.  H.  Heshbon  so.  for  West,  miss,  by  Sc- 
phrunia  Adams,  Sec,  10;  .an  Indiv.  1;  mon. 
con,  by  Rev,  Z.  S.  Barstow,  5, 

LrtouoH,  (Exeter)  Ct.  Newell  so. "by  Rev.  C,  B, 
Everest, 


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Let,  Ms.  Mr.  J.  Bradley  m.  f.  for  Pal.  miss,  by 

Kev.  Dr.  Hyde .  5  00 

Lenox,  Mi.  Char,  box  by  Mrs.  M.  Walker,  3  00 

Lcuisbitrg,  Pa.  Buti'alo  Fern,  iniss.  so.  by  Mary 

Geddis,  Tr.  20  00 

Levt'iett,'S\i.  Fem.  char.  so.  by  Rev.  J.  Colburii,    10  31 
Litchjietd,  Ct.  Hon.  B.  Talaiadge,  for  for.  miss. 

school,  100  00 

Lynrf'-4»rot(^/i,N.  H.  mon.  con.  byMr.  W.  Jones,  15  14 
Lyons,  N.  Y.  moii.  Cun.  by  Dea.  A.  'Ihomas,  2  50 

Marblchead,  Ms.  Coll.  in  Rev.  Mr.  S.  Dana's 
meeting  house,  after  an  address  by  Mr.  D. 
Brown,  for  schools  among  the  CheroUees;  by 
Hon.  W.  Reed,  23  GO 

Marlborough,  Ct.  Fem.  benev,  so.  by  Roxana 

Lord,  Tr.  17   12 

Mr.rtbotovgh,  Ms.  Fem.  cent.  so.  Mi-s.  L.  H. 
Clark.  Tr. 9,87; a  friend,  by  Rev.  S.  F.  Buck- 
lin,  16;  25  87 

Mobile,  Ala.  Capt.  Deering,  10  00 

Mount  Vernon,  X.  Y.  mon.  con.  by  Dea.  A.  Tlio- 

nias,  y;  m.  f.  from  Indiv.  19;'  28  00 

yeicark,  N.  J.  Two  fiiends  by  Mr.  E.  Conger,    14  00 
uS'C7vb>irypoyt,Mi.  laiiu.  con.  in  first  Pres.  chh. 
by  Jir.  Williams, 33;  Fourth  reljg. so.  bvMr. 
SiH.  Currier,  10;  I>.lrs.  Sawyer, for  schools 
among  ihe  Cheroktes,  by  Mr.  D.  Brown,  5;    48  00 
Keiv  Hampshire,  J.  W.  by  .Mr.  S.  A.  Worcester,    3  00 
Seu'  Haven,  X.  Y.  mon.  con.  by  Dea.  A.  Tho- 
mas, 4  31 
i\exv  Haven  Co.  Ct.  West.  dis.  aux.  so.  Rev.  E. 
Erraiiton,    Tr.    from  Derby    23,22;    from 
i^orth  Milford,  4,12;                                            27  oi 
Ne-tvington,  Ct.  mon.  con.  Mr.  AV.  Denning,  A- 

gfriit.  by  Rev.  Dr.  Chapin,  12  00 

KfTt)  London,  Ct.  K.  R.  2  00 

Neinton,  Ms.(East  Par.)  Ed.  so.  for  Joizathaii  Ho- 

mer,m  Ceylou,l)y  Mr.  E.  F.  Woodv.ard,Tr.  20  00 
North  Bridgeu'ater,  Ms.  Coll.  after  an  address 
by  Mr.  D.  Brown,  for  schools  among  the 
Clierokees,  43  57 

Northampton,  Ms.  E.  ■\Villiauis,  Esq.  100  00 

Nortliampton  dr  neighboring  torvns,  Ms.  For 
miss.  so.  Mr.  E.  S.  Phelps,  Tr.  coll.  in  Had- 
ley,  53,91;  coiitiib.  at  an.  meet,  in  Hatjie/d, 
13,63;  a  friend,  2;  coll.  in  Northampton,  102; 
in  Southampton,  10,50;  in  Sunderland, 
28,55;  in  Shutesbury,4,75imll^ilUamsburgh, 
IS;  ill  ll'est  Hampton,  20;  (38,63  expense  of 
printing' repoits,  deducted)  214  71 

North  Tarmouth,  Me.  Philethnican  so.  for  £/;- 
xabeth  Mary  Cummings,  at  the  Sandw.  Isls. 
10;  Newell  so.  for  Asa  Cummings,  at  the 
Sandw.  Isl.  10;  by  Rev.  A.  Cummings,  20  00 

N-oncich,  Ct.  Young  La.  so.  fouith  an.  pay.  for 
Joanna  Lathrop  in  Ceylon,  by  Miss  F.  L. 
Lathrop,  12;  mon.  con.  12,56;  reward  for 
four  chil.  fur  self  denial  4;  m.  box  44  c  a 
thank  offering,  8;  by  Mr.  C.  Lathrop,  37  CO 

Noncic/i,  Me.  Fem.  cent.  so.   11,32;  mon.   con. 

9.15;  by  Rev.  J.  Walker,  20  47 

Oneida  Co.  N.  Y.  A  Clergyman.  20;  his  fam.  5.      25  00 
Pal.  Miss.  So.  for  the  sufjiort  of  Rev.  D.  Tem- 
ple, by  Dr.  E.  Alden,  Tr.  150  OC 
Paris,  Me.  mon.  con.  7,25;  m.  f.  3;  two  friends, 

5,28;  bv  Pv^ev.  J.  AValker.  15  53 

Paris,  N.  Y.  Mr.  J.  Schofield,  3,06;  Mr.  A.  Gil- 
more,  S;  a  little  gid,  1;  m.f.  22,33;  by  Dea. 
A.  Thomas,  31  39 

Pnwlet,  Vt.  miss.  Cards  bv  Miss  D.  Sargent.         10  00 
Peru,  Ms.  Mr.  R.  Haskell.  2,50;  Miss  L.  Gold- 

thwait.  1.75;  by  Jlr.  L.  Field,  4  25 

Fi'terborough,ti.\.ai'r\vaA,  10  00 

Phila.  Pa.  Robert  Ralston,  Esq.  for  Bombay 
Chapel,  20;  Fem.  Ceylon  ed.  so.  for  chil. 
in  Ceylon,  by  A.  Henry  Esq.  60;  Fera.  so. 
for  ed.  and  sup.  of  hea.  youth.  Semi-an.pay.  ■ 
for  IVilUam  Alan  ir  Hehry  M.  Alum,  at 
the  for.  mis.  school,  by  Miss  JI.  Engles,  Tr. 
100;  180  00 

Pittsjield.  :^fs.  mom  con.  by  Dea.  J.  Bissell,  9  00 

Plymouth,  Ms.  Fem.  so.  for  Choc,  schools,  by 

Mrs.  A.  Boutelle,  Tr.  17  73 

Plympton,  Ms.  Char,  box  by  Mn.  X.  Dexter,  81 

Poivnal.  Me.  Fem.  cent  so.  8,82;  mon.  con. 
65cts.m.f.2;  con.  on  thaiiksg.  day,  10,63;  bv 
Rev.  P.  Cliapln.  '    22  10 

Princeton.  N.  J.  sab.  sch.  no.  2.  for  John  S.  Neic- 

bold  in  Ceylon,  by  Mr.  J.  Myers,  12  00 

Providence.  R.  .T.  Coll.  in  Rev.  Mr.  Wilson's 
meeting  house,  after  address  by  Mr.  Da^id 
Blown,  for  schools  among  the  Cher«kees, 


5  00 
10  00 


12  00 


6  00 


34,33;  coll.  in  the  Baptist  chuich,  do.  do. 
27,50;  by  Rev.  P.  Ludlow .  for  do.  30;  Mrs. 
Kodgei  ^.  by  Mr.  L).  Brown,  for  do.  1;  92  8v 

Quincy,M^.  Fei„.  Evang.  so.  for  west.  miss,  by 

Mrs.  K.  Cutler, Tr.  12  25 

Randolph,  Ms.  mon  con.  by  Dr.  E.  Alden,  32  43 

Richland,  N.  Y.  Mr.  H.  Foster,  by  Dea.  A.  Tho- 
mas, 

Romulus,  N.  Y'.  mon.  con.    by  do. 

Ruot,'S.\.  Aux.  u.iss.  so.  for  wes.  miss.  ,so. b' 
Mr.  H.  J.  Deivendorf,  Tr. 

RoyaUton,^U.  31rs.  M.  Thor.-.soB,  by  Rev.  E. 
Perkins,  1;  miss.  so.  for  ed.  hea.  youth,  bv 
W.  K.  Talbot,  5; 

Salem,  Ms.  8c  Vic.  For.  miss.  so.  by  Mr.  E.  Kim- 
hall,  Tr.  66, 13;  mon.  con.  at  south  meeting 
house,  by  do.  8,^0;  74  58 

Salisbury,  Ms.  (West  P.ir.)  >Ir.  S.  Xye  &  others, 

for  Ilea.  chil.  at  the  west,  5  0* 

Saybrook,  Ct.  Young  men's  miss.  so.  of  Pctti- 

paug,  bv  Col.  Wm.  Bull,  Tr.  45  00 

Sheffield,  Ms.  Mr.  A.  A.  Root,  by  Mr.  S.  Train,    10  57 

Southbridge,  Ms.  Con.  for  uest.  miss.  6,53;  mon. 
con.  5,08;  Mrs.  C.  Moi-se,  1;  Fem.  so.  11,50; 
by  Rev.  J.  Park,  24  11 

South  Reading,  Ms.  coll.  after  address  by  Jlr.  D. 
Brown,  lor  schools  among  the  Cherokees; 
by  Mr.  .\.  Brjan,  23  20 

Sturbridgc,  Jls.  Mon.  con.  for  Pal.  miss,  by  Rev. 

A.  Bond,  16  33 

Sivansey,  X.  H.  Mr.  S.  Parsons, by  Mr.  A.  Kings- 
bury, 3  00 

Tolland,  Ct.  mon.  con.  8,32;    Young  La.  asso. 

14;  by  Rev.  W.  Fayj  22  32 

Trenton  Illlage,  X.  Y.  chil.  in  sab.  sell.  6;  mon. 

con.  3,60:  by  Dea.  A.  Thomas,  9  GO 

Truro,  Ms.  Cong.  Benev.  So.  by  Mr.  S.  Rider, 

Tr.  7  30 

Ulica,  X'.  Y.  Mrs.  M.  Clough,  char,  box, for  San. 

Isl.  miss,  by  Dea.  A.  1  liomas,  2  25 

Volney,  X'.  Y.  mon.  con.  by  do.  do.  5  21 

Walton,  X.  Y.  Rev.  A.  Basset,  by  Rev.  Dr.  Por- 


ter, 


5  00 


16  68 
22  31 


20 

00 

5 

00 

3 

50 

20 

00 

3  00 

JVestborough,  Ms.  mon.  con.  17;  m.  f.  2,25;  by 

Rev.  E.  Rockwood, 
n'estjield,'^.   Y.   Pres.   chh.  (of which  5,68  fr. 

mon.  eon.)  15,68;  a  friend,  1,00;  by  Mr.  A.. 

Brjaiit, 
irestjord,  Jls.  mon.  con.  by  Mr.  C.  Wiight, 
Wfif  Harrford,  Ct.  La.  so.  for  west.  miss,  by  Sa- 
rah Coleman,  Tr.  13  50 
Westminster,  Ms.  Mrs.  J.  Wantn,  by  Rev.  C. 

Mann,  '  2  CO 

Wilmington,  Del.  Mrs.  L.  M.  Gilbert,  a  bal.  50 

Windham,  Ct.  First  chli.  by  Rev.  C.  B.  Everest,    3  22 
Winchester,  X.  H.  Char,  box  by  Mr.  W.    H. 

Cowles,  '  7  00 

IViscasset  e*  Vic.  ISIe.  For.  miss.  so.  AV.  Rice, 

Esq.  Tr. 
Woodstock,  A't.  Mr.  C.  Dana, 
Worcesrer,  Ms.  Ju\'.  so.  for  west.  miss,  by  Mrs.  R. 

Heard,3;  Samuel  and  Sarah  Tavlor, for  hea. 

chil.  50  c 
Wrentham,  JIs.  Read.  so.  by  Mr.  L.  R.  Sliaw, 
Unknown,  a  schoolmaster,  received  Dee.  12th, 
Amount  of  donatiojis  acknncledged  in  the  preceding 
list,  Jg3,  361,42. 

PERM.\XEXT  FUXD. 

Canton,  Ct.  Part  of  the  legacy  of  the  late  Dr.  Solomon 
Everest,  received  siiue  the  last  ackuowledgmentin 
the  Herald,  and  vested  in  a  fuud  to  be  deiiominat- 
ed  tlie  EVEREST  FUXD;  the  interest  of  which 
to  be  applied  for  the  benefit  of  the  Foreign  Mission 
School;  by  Benjamin  Ely,  Esq.  Exr.  1,000  CO 

LEGACIES. 

Part  of  tlie  leg-acy  of  the  late  Dr.  Solomon  Everest,  of 
Canton,  Ct.  (4,425  having  been  acknowledged  in 
preWous  numbers  of  the  Missionaiy  Herald,  and 
1,000  above.)  by  Benjamin  Ely,  Esq.  Exr.  100,00 

Legacy  of  :Miss  Rachel  Griffin,  late  of  Paris,  X".  Y. 
(Hanover  So.)  deceased,  by  Dea.  A.  Thomas,     3  00 

DO^ATIOXS  IN    CLOTHIXG,   &CC. 

^iin^oM,  Ms.  (First  Par.)  a  box  fr.  fem.  char. 

i-eading  so.  for  west.  miss,  by  Sally  King,  Tr.  34  83 
Boston,  Ms.  Sundiy  articles   fr.  a  friend,   for 

Hightower,  II  37 


1824.  Imjioriance  of  System  in  coiilributions  at  the  Monthly  Concert.  21 


Cnmhrid'^e,  Ms.  a  small  bundle  fr.  miss,  sewing 

cii'jk-,tor  Bi-aiueid,  by  S.  Maiiroe,  sec. 
Enfu-ld.  Ms.  a.  box  oi'   cluihing  fr.  char.  so.  for 

«est.  miss,  by  Mr.  H.  Forbes,   I'r.  32  33 

Corhani,  Me.  a  box  fr.  fern.  beue\'.  so.  for  Tiu- 

nip  -Mountain,  (HaweisJ  43  00 

Hinsdale,  Ms.  a  box, 
Maiic/ieitei;  Vi.  a  box  fr.  fern,  mite  so.  for  wes. 

mi»5.  by  Mrs.  H.  Loveland,  Tr.  18  00 

Mar/Ouroii^/i,\u  a  box  fr.  ladies  for  wes.  miss,  by 

Mr.  E.  H.  Xcwton,  33  00 

Xfii-Z/urij/jort,  Ms.  a  box  fr.  fern.  Elliot  so.  for 

Mr.  Wood's  scheol,  Elliot.by  Harriet  Clark, 

sec-.  20  00 

Snv  Haven  Co.  Ct.  wes.  dis.  aux.  so.  clotlilug^, 

&e. fr.  Deifjy.  2  00 

NejL'ton.  Ms.  a  bundle  fr.  friendly  so.  for  wes. 

mis.  31  70 

Sakiit .  Ms.  a  bedquilt  fr.  young  ladies  in  Miss 

Floyd's  sell,  for  wes.  miss,  a  bundle  of  tiucts 

fr.  do. 
Spencer,  .Ms.  a  box, 

/K«rturoH^'/j,'Ms.  a  bvmdle  fr.  a  friend, 
fi'orcester^^ls.  a  biimliefr.  juv.  so.  for  wes.  miss. 

by  Mrs.  R.  HwUcl,  a   box  of  books,  &c.  fr. 

indiv.  for  Dwiglit,  by  Miss  F.  H.  Porter,         47  00 

Committed  to  the  care  of  Heniy  Hudsoc,  Esq.  Hart- 
ford, Ct. 
Conneclicut  Bible  So.  100  Bibles  for  wes.  mission. 
East  Had(/ai;i.  Ci.  a.  boxfj.  feni.  dona.  so.  for 

For.  miss,  school,  by  Sarali  B.  Pai-sons,  supt.  23  00 

Committed  to  the  care  oj  Mr.  John  P.  Haven, 
New  I'ork  City. 
Bloomjiel'l,  X.  .T.  a  Cask  fr.  fem.  clothing  so.  for 

west.  miss. 
Catskill,  >•'•  Y.  a  Iwx  for  Elliot. 
Durham,  N.  Y.  two  boxes  for  Six  Towns,  1  box 

from  foin.  of  pros.  so. 
Fly  Creek.  S.  Y.  a  box  for  Brainerd,  63  70 

Greenv.'ich.  Ct.  a  box  fr.  young  ladies,  sum.  asso. 

for  Elliot,  Miss  Sarali  Lewis,  sec.  65  13 

Cri:ni'okl,  Ci    a  box  for  Maybe w, 
Hebron,  K.  Y.  a  cask  fr.  fem.  char.  so.  for  wes. 

miss.  JS  00 

Lenox-,  X.  \.  a  small  box  fr.  chil.  ami  young  peo- 
ple, for  Mayhe;^-, 
Xni-ieii.h.  Ct.  a  box  l"or  Brainerd, 
Rushville.  X.  Y.  a  box  fr.  ft-m.  chai'.  so.  Mai-y  I,. 

Bovdraan.  sec.  37   00 

Salem  ir  Montvitle,  Ct.  a  box  f r.  ladies,  61  'i9 

South  Granville.  'S.  Y.  a  box  for  Taloiiey, 
H'ext  Storkbridge,  Ms.  a  box  for  Elliot, 
H'illiamiton-n,  Ms.  a  box  for  wes.  miss. 
Windham.  X'.  Y'.  a  box  fr.  ladies  iu  Rev.  Mr. 

Stimpson'sso. 

Committed  to  the  care  o/Dca.  J.  Thomas.  Uticn,  N.  T. 
Camden,  "S.  Y.  a  bun.  from  fem.  benev.  so.  16  12 

^ra,y.  Y.  sundries  fr.  Fem.  miss.  so.  13;  fr.  a 

friend,  7;  20  00 

Unionvillc,  X.  Y.  a  box  fr.  Dorcas  so.  18  00 

Ko/nei/,  X'.  Y'.  a  boxfr.  Dorcas  so.  43  73 

ERRATUM:— The  sum  of  glO acknowledged  in  the 
Herald  for  June,  from  IVestOorough,  N.  Y.  was  receiv- 
eJ  from  Peterborough,  X.  \. 


EXTRACT  FROM  CORRESPONDEXCE. 

The  following  suggestions,  which  came  from 
one  laboriously  devoted  to  the  cause  of  be- 
nevolence, ate  worthy  of  serious  attention. 

The  complaint  is  often  made,  that  the 
funds  of  the  American  ijonril  siie  not  sulll- 
cient  for  the  important  missionary  o])erytinns, 
in  which  it  has  engaged:  niuch  less  so  for 
these  enlarged  operations,  which  the  state  of 
the  world  is  loudly  calling  for;  and  the  ques- 
tion is  often  asked.  What  can  be  done?  Tliis 
statement  and  ap()e.il  Inive  occasionally  called 
forth  a  few  liberal   donations,  but  have  failed 


to  secure  any  general  or  permanent  support 
to  the  cause.  The  Ciiristian  public,  at  large, 
would,  no  doubt,  be  disposed  to  come  forth 
to  the  work  wiib  suflicient  sti-ength,  provid- 
ed some  wise  plan  could  be  pi  oposoi,  and  so 
recommended  and  enforced  as  to  awaken  a 
due  attention  to  the  subject. 

In  revolving  this  subject  in  my  mind,  my 
thoughts  have  i.een  directed  strongly  to  the 
CoxLEiiT  OF  FnATEii.  The  monthly  .issem- 
blies,  for  this  purpose,  are  becoming  more  and 
more  numerous  throughout,  the  Christian 
world,  and  it  is  becoming  more  commou  to 
make  these  occasions  seasons  of  coniribution, 
as  well  as  of  pra\er.  Now,  how  easy  would 
it  be,  to  raise  all  the  required  funds  for  mis- 
sionary purposes,  at  these  seasons.  Let  there 
be  a  greater  attention  excited  to  the  Month- 
ly Concert,  by  ministers,  and  Christians,  so  as 
greatly  to  increase  the  number  of  the  attendants 
on  those  occasions:  Let  it  be  proposed,  that 
every  person  who  attends  have  a  plan,  with 
respect  to  the  magnitude  of  his  contribution, 
and  let  it  not  be  a  mere  pittance,  but  such  a 
sura  as  th«  great  objects  prayed  for,  demand: 
Let  it  be  recommended  to  those  who  are  de- 
tained from  these  solenin  and  interesting  as- 
semblies, by  bad  weather,  ill  health,  or  any 
otli'T  cause,  to  spend  the  consecrated  hour 
as  much  as  possible,  in  prayer,  with  tlieir  fa- 
milies, or  in  tlveir  retirements;  and  at  the 
close  of  it,  to  lay  aside  their  contribution  for 
tlie  month,  the  same  as  I'-ough  they  resorted 
to  the  \)lace  of  social  supjilicaiion: — Let  every 
circle  of  Christians,  united  for  tliis  holy  pur- 
pose, have  a  I'reasurer,  and  let  Iiiiu,ifit 
should  be  thought  proper,  report,  at  every 
meeting,  w  hai  sum  was  collected  at  tiie  last 
meeting,  and  what  sum  is  in  the  treasury: 
And  as  often  as  sliall  be  convenient,  let  the 
Treasurer  be  directed  to  forward  what  shall 
be  in  his  hands  to  the  Treasurer  of  the  Amer- 
ican Board.  Many  Christians,  who  were  in 
this  course  of  aiding  the  funds  of  the  Board, 
would  doubtless  be  disposed  also  to  do  it  by 
direct  contributions,  annually,  and  to  give  a 
helping  hand  to  other  charitable  institutions 
and  objects,  as  they  should  be  able;  w  hile  the 
rich  iu  this  world  w  ould  occasionally  send  their 
more  munificent  charities  to  the  treasuiy  of 
the  Lord.  The  above  is  a  iiint  which  I  hope 
may  be  improved.  C. 

Our  readers  must  have  noticed,  that  the 
average  collections  at  the  United  Month- 
ly Concert  in  Park-street  Church,  Bos- 
ton, are  wore  than  fifty  dollars.  It  is 
])resumed,  no  similar  meeting  produces  any 
thing  equal  to  this  Now  we  know,  that  what 
procures  this  respectable  collection,  is  not  the 
■ivoalthui  \.\\osc  who  are  present;  for  (ew  rich 
men  attend.  It  is  not  the  great  mtmber  of 
contributors;  for  (he  principal  part  of  the 
amount  comes  from  a  very  few  individuals. 
It  is  tiot  because  these  few  contribute,  at  tliis 
ineeliiig,  all  that  then  gir^e  to  foreign  mis- 
sio7is;  tor  tlieir  contributions,  on  this  occasion, 
are  a  very  small  portion,  only,  of  their  dona- 
tions to  the  l?oard, — s;iying  nulliing  of  their 
other  charities.  The  secret  of  the  wliole  is 
this; — Theu  ffive  .^istematica/.'it.  A  number 
of  persons  have  engaged  to  contribute  a  dol- 
lar at  every  Concen  and  fulfil  lliei;-  engage- 
ment. 


22 


Progress  of  Sabbath  Schools....Mission  to  Hayti. 


Jan. 


jToretan  KnteUtBence. 


"Mrs. 

TerlCs. 

Schr's. 

402 

4.107 

31,997 

37 

2,504 

2,854 

42 

540 

4,055 

28 

200 

1,200 

397 

5,033 

55,175 

2,888 

37,546 

383,670 

974 

14,018 

98,240 

1292 

3.000 

71,300 

1,519 

11,628 

149,782 

103 

6,824 

pnOGBESS   OF    SABBATH   SHOOLS. 

The  following  table  is  couipiled  from  a  report 
made  .-it  tiie  last  annual  meeting  of  the  Eng- 
lish Sunday  School  Union  Society.  Thnugh 
it  gives  by  no  means  a  complete  view  of  the 
extent,  to  which  these  useful  schools  have 
been  carried  in  the  world,  it  exhi'iits,  not- 
withstanding, a  very  animating  view.  In 
these  schools,  at  least,  and  upon  these  many 
ten  thousands  of  youths, — the  germs  of  the 
next  generation, — a  religious  influence  is  ex- 
erted, which  promises  the  happiest  results. 

United  States. 

Phil.  Sunday  School  Union, 

New  York  Union  for  Females, 

Boys, 

Canada, 
Sunday  School  Union, 

Great  Britian  and  Ireland, 
In  London, 

Country  Unions  in  England, 
Unions  in  Wales, 
Sabbath  Schools  in  Scotland, 
In  Ireland,  Sund.  Sch.  Society 
Sunday  Sclis.  of  Hibernian  So.  j 

I  7",682  I  76,726  |  805,097 

In  the  West  Indies,  (principally  at  Anti- 
gua,) there  were,  at  the  time  of  this  meeting, 
6,0UU  children  instructed  in  these  schools;  be- 
sides no  less  than  4il,y00  instructed  by  means 
of  missionaries.  There  are,  moreover.  Sab- 
bath Schools  in  the  South  Sea  Islands,  and 
among  the  negroes  of  Western  and  Southern 
Africa.  It  is  not  stated  how  extensively 
such  schools  exist  on  the  Continent  of  Eu- 
rope. 

MISSION  TO  HAITI. 

Jltassachiisetts  Baptist  Society. 

At  page  189  of  our  last  volume,  we  mention- 
ed the  appointment  of  ]Mr.  Paul  as  a  mission- 
ary to  his  colored  brethren  at  Hayti.  By  let- 
ters from  him  recently  published  in  the  Amer- 
ican Baptist  MMgazine,  there  appears  reason 
to  hope,  that  his  mission  will  not  disiippoint 
the  expectations  of  the  Society  which  sup- 
ports him.  The  following  extracts  describe  his 
prospects.  The  first  is  dated  at  Port  aii 
Prince,  July  16,  1823.  The  President,  of 
whom  he  speaks,  was  Boyer. 

It  is  my  duty  to  announce  to  you  that  I  ob- 
tained an  interview  yestenlay  with  his  excel- 
lency the  President,  ;.t  the  government  bouse, 
which  lasted  not  far  f.oiu  two  hours  1  was 
introduced  co  him  by  Gen.  E— .  My  creden- 
tials wei-.-  ;)reviously  ir:.)slatcd  into  French, 
and  handed  him  withfihe  letter  and  Bibles 
I  received  from  Nev/-York,     After  the  formal 


introduction,  we  took  our  seats,  when  I  said,  I 
presume  your  Excellency  has  been  u|)prized 
of  tile  object  and  design  of  my  missioii  to  this 
liiihly  ra.u'-ed  couiitry.  He  informed  me  he 
hau  received  .lis  letter  and  my  credentials, 
and  the  BiLles,  &c.  for  wh:ch  he  tendereil  his 
thanks,  ahd  was  abundantly  satisfied  with  my 
papers,  and  sorry  that  such  was  the  situation 
of  ihe  people  that  the}  were  not  ptepared  to 
receive  or  benr  another  i-eligioii,  contrary  to 
ihat  of  the  establishment  of  the  country, 
iiowever,  he  hopeii  in  a  t'u'ure  day,  the  time 
would  come  « lien   all  religi')ns  would  rejoice 

together      Gen.E wa.i  present. 

i  eiideavored  to  explain    to  them,  the  real 
object  of  my  visit  to  this  island,  and  the  feel- 
ings of  the  board,  together  with  my  own,  and 
that  1  felt  deeply  interested  in  their  present, 
!  and  eveilasting  welfare.     After  bringing  ii  to 
[  view  other  considerations,  his  Excellency  told 
j  me  I  might  preach  in  a  piivate  house  oi  liall, 
;  and  that  he  hoped  the   time  was   not  far  dis- 
tant, when  we  should  build  houses  oi  worship 
and  enjoy  them  unmolested.  And  both  of  them 
idfectionately  told  ine  not  to  be  a  stranger;  nor 
treat  them  as  such,   but  to  call  at  their  houses 
often;  they  should  always  be  glad  to  see  me. 

The  next  letter  is  dated  in  August,  at  Cape 
Haytien.  After  mentioning  his  interview 
with  the  President,  which  is  noticed  above, 
he  says: 

When  I  returned,  every  one  was  anxious  to 
hear  the  result,  and  when  they  were  informed 
that  1  had  liberty  to  preach,  their  hearts 
melted  within  them,  and  they  blessed  God 
'  and  took  courage.  I  distributed  a  number  of 
Bibles  in  the  course  of  the  week,  and  preach- 
ed on  Lord's  day  in  the  morning  to  about  50 
men;  not  a  feniale  present.  In  the  afternoon 
I  preached  to  about  double  that  number;  per- 
haps one  third  were  females;  the  season  was 
solemn,  ai  d  many  wept. 

I  ari'ivtd   at  the  Cane  on   the  29th  of  July, 

with  letters  from  government  to  (ien.  M , 

whichgave  him  great  satisfaction:  he  was  pleas- 
ed to  say  to  me  that  he  ivas  very  glad  1  had 
obtained  my  ol/ject,  uiid  I  might  rest  secure 
that  nothing  should  bi.  wanting  on  the  part  of 
the  government,  and  wished  to  receive  inform- 
ation when  1  should  preach,  as  be  would  attend 
and  hear  me.  Hitherco  the  Lord  God  hath 
blessed  me. 

On  the  first  Monday  in  the  month,  the 
monthly  concert  of  prayer  was  observed.  A- 
bout  150  persons  were  present.  Mr.  Paul 
expected  to  establish  a  Bible  Society  ^at  the 
Cape,  and  another  at  Port  au  Prince.  At 
th'-  former  place,  he  found  eight  or  ten  per- 
sons, concerning  whose  piety  he  indulged  a 
fiivorable  opinion. 

In  this  place  it  may  not  be  uninteresting  to 
copy  from  one  of  the  public  journals,  a  notice 


182^K 


Pitcairn's  Island. 


23 


of  the  progress,  which  a  knowledge  of  litera- 
ture and  the  sciences  is  makitig  in  Hayti. 
Some  of  our  readers  may  remember  how  well 
it  corresponds  witli  sonie  statements  respect- 
ing this  island,  published  in  the  15th  volume 
of  our  wotk,  p.  i;84. 

There  has  bevn  lately  established  at  Port 
au  Priiice,  an  .Mensive  acucemy,  in  which 
are  taught  all  tranches  of  juris;»rudeiice,  lit- 
erature, the  ji/uiciples  ot  astro;/';my,  medi- 
cine, fete  \  similar  academy  or  college,  willi 
able  professo.s  natives  of  ihe  louiitry,  has 
been  long  CiC-bhslied  at  (Jape  llayiien,  un- 
der the  patr'jiiat;e  ot  the  governmeni;  and 
its  medicul  department  i)laced  under  the  su- 
perintendei.ee  of  Dr.  SLeivart.  an  eminent 
scholar  and  physician,  irom  England,  who 
still  continues  to  rt  side  there,  ttilli  his  lady 
and  family.  In  fact,  ihe  whole  of  the  south  and 
north  parts  of  Hayti.  have  enjoyed,  for  many 
years,  ihe  benefits  ot  educat-ion,  and  their 
public  ijctiools  are  as  rnmtrous,iii  pi'oportion 
to  *he  population,  and  tlitir  rapid  progress  in 
improvement,  equal  to  those  in  New  Eng- 
land; in  all  of  which,  the  Ei.glish  as  well  as 
French  lani;uage  is  taught.  The  public  offi- 
cers of  the  ilifferent  districts  are  charged  with 
the  inspection  and  examination  of  these 
schools,  and  requited  to  make  annual  reports 
to  the  Pres  di-nt  ot  Ha)  ti,  of  their  progress 
in  the  different  branches  of  learning.  The 
cast,  or  Spanish  part  of  the  Island,  recently 
connected  with  the  Presidency  by  the  \olun- 
tary  consent  of  its  iniiabits.nts,  has  been  deni- 
ed the  advantages  of  tora.uon  schools,  thiough 
the  ill-judged  jjolicy  of  its  former  rulers;  but 
the  paternal  care  of  the  new  government  is 
extending  its  benign  influence  over  this  section 
of  the  country,  and  the  same  regulations  for 
the  establi-^hmeiii  of  public  schools,  and  the 
cultivation  of  learning  and  morals,  are  in  suc- 
cessful operation. 


PITCAinN  S  rSLAJi'D. 

The  London  Evangelical  Magazine  contains 
some  h'teand  interesting  intelligence  irom  this 
island,  which  the  New  \''ork  Observer  intro- 
duces wiih  the  following  brief  historical  no- 
tice. 

The  settlement  on  this  island  owes  its  ori- 
gin to  the  mutineers  ot"  the  British  armed 
Tessel  the  Bounty  In  the  year  1789  this 
vessel,  while  employed  in  the  Pacific  Ocean, 
was  taken  from  her  commander.  Lieutenant 
\Villinm  I3ligh,  by  25  of  the  crew,  who  put 
the  lieutenant  and  18  of  his  men  into  the 
launch,  which,  after  a  passage  of  I'2  0  leagues, 
providentially  arrived  at  a  Dutch  settlement 
on  the  island  of  Timor.  The  mutineers  pro- 
ceeded to  Otaheite,  where  Ifi  of  the  -25  desir- 
ed to  be  landed,  and  most  of  them  were  af- 
terwards taken  and  sent  to  Great  Britain  for 
trial.  The  remaining  nine,  after  making  a 
short  stay  at  Otaheite,  where  they  took  wives 
and  si.'c  men  servants,  proceeded  to  Pitrairn's 
Island,  which  was  at  that  time  uninhabited, 
and  out  of  the  common  track  of  Euroiiean 


vessels.  Here  they  destroyed  the  ship  and  * 
remained  in  entire  obscurity,  nniil  the  year 
18U8,  when  they  weie  aciiiJentally  discover- 
ed by  Cap'ain  Folger  of  Hostun,  who  learnt 
that  about  six  years  after  ihey  landed,  their 
serviints  attacked  and  killed  all  the  English, 
excepting  one  venerable  olil  man  (who  called 
himself  Jolin  Adams,  but  whose  real  name 
was  Alexander  Smith  ;  and  that  the  Otahei- 
t;in  widows  arose  the  same  night,  and  mur- 
dered ail  their  countrymen,  leaving  Adams 
aloi.e  with  the  widows  and  children.  Since 
(Ja[)t  Folger's  visit  several  British  command- 
ers have  touched  at  the  island  and  they  agree 
in  represetiiing  the  state  of  the  new  colony  as 
remarkably  liapj)y  and  interesting.  The 
your.g  men  ami  women  are  beautifully  form- 
ed, wi'h  open,  benevolent  countenances,  and 
all  of  ihrm  have  the  most  marked  English 
features.  The  principles  of  religion  and  mo- 
rality, have  been  carefully  instilled  into  their 
youthful  minds  by  .John  Adams,  and  thus  far 
they  ha\e  been  preserved  perfectly  chaste 
and  free  from  all  kinds  ol  debauchery.  The 
Sabbath  is  strictly  observed,  and  prayers  are 
offered  up  every  morning  and  evening  in  the 
most  simple  and  unafiected  manner. 

The  account  in  the  Evangelical  Magazine 
furnishes  ample  confirmation  of  the  last  state- 
ments in  the  above  extract  This  account 
was  given  to  the  Directors  of  the  London 
Missionary  Society,  by  a  professional  gentle- 
man, who  visited  the  island  a  little  more  titan 
a  year  ago.     It  is  as  follows: 

At  the  above  mentioned  period,  there  were 
residing  on  the  island  54  jieisons,  of  whom 
49  were  the  off.jprii)g  of  the  mutineers  of  the 
Bounty.  Seven  of  the  young  men  were  mar- 
ried, and  had  in  all  ■2,7  children,  of  whom  25 
were  under  1(1  years  of  age.  John  Adams 
presides  as  a  patriarch  over  this  interesting 
po[)idation.  To  tin-  utmost  of  his  power,  he 
has  endeav(jred  to  train  them  up  in  the  prin- 
ciples of  piety  and  virtue,  and  they  ap[)ear  to 
approach  nearer  to  the  state  of  primeval  in- 
nocence and  simplicity  than  perhaps  any  oth- 
er comniunity.  Their  condition  presents  a 
delightful  picture  of  socIhI  happiness.  The 
Bible  is  iheir  directory.  .Most  of  them,  who 
are  above  ten  )  ears  of  age,  can  read  it.  .\ 
!  considerable  part  of  their  time  is  employed  in 
offering  up  praises  to  the  Almighty.  Nearly 
the  whole  of  tlie  .Sabbath  is  spent  in  prayer, 
singing,  and  reading  the  Holy  Scriptures. — 
Every  morning  at  4  o'clock,  they  assemble  ii\ 
their  respective  habitations  for  family  wor- 
ship, when  an  appropriate  psalm  is  sgmg.  At 
eleven,  all  the  families  meet  together  on  n 
green,  in  the  front  of  their  dwellings,  when 
John  .\ilams  reads  prayers,  and  portions  of 
the  Scriptures,  and  one  or  two  psalms  are 
sung.  Before  sunset  tliey  thus  , assemble 
again.  Afterwards,  they  have  firaily  prayer, 
sing  the  Evening  Hymn  and  retire  to  rest. 

This  little  island  is  extremely  healthy,  and 
produces,  with  very  little  labor,  all  the  ne- 
cessaries of  life,  and  some  of  its  Inxurres. — 
The  scenery  where  this  interesting  portion  ot 
the  human  race  have  fixed  their  habitations. 


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Roman  Catholic  Church Revivals  oj  Religion. 


Jan. 


5s  described    as    poculiarly   picturesque    and 
beaulitdl. 

From  this  remote,  and  in  various  respects, 
desirable  spot,  anxiety,  however,  is  not  exclu- 
ded. The  number  of  ships  which  touch 
at  tliis  island,  both  English  and  American,  is 
now  much  greater  than  formerly.  John  Ad- 
ams is  apprehensive  that  this  may  lead  to  an 
intercourse  between  strangers  wnd  his  people, 
injurious  to  their  morals  and  happiness.  Al- 
tho'  possessing  considerable  physical  strength, 
with  the  use  of  his  faculties  entire,  he  is  sen- 
.  sible  of  his  advancing  age,  and  feels  desirous,  j 
as  do  the  adult  portion  of  his  large  family,  ! 
that  an  individual  of  weight. and  excellence  of  J 
character,  to  acquire  over  the  people  a  per-  1 
sonal  influeace,  at  once  just  and  beneficial, 
should  settle  in  the  island  during  his  life-time,  j 
The  plan  such  an  individual  might  form  for  i 
promoting  the  education,  religious  improve- 1 
ment,  and  social  welfare  of  the  people,  John  [ 
Adams  would  second  with  all  the  influence  j 
which  Vie  himself  derives  from  their  confir-m- 
ed  attachment  and  siffectionate  veneration. 

It  is  tiie  desire  of  Mr.  Adams,  and  his  peo- 
ple, that  the  person  who  may  settle  on  the 
island  with  those  views,  should  be  an  English- 
man, a  minister,  and  that  he  should  be  sent 


out  under  the  sanction  of  the  London  Mis- 
sionary Society. 

As,  however,  the  interesting  people  who 
tluis  require  the  intervention  of  the  Society, 
do  not  fall  within  the  recognized  sphere  of 
its  operations,  the  directors  canrot  pledge 
themselves  to  contribute  towards  the  expens- 
es either  of  equipment  or  maintenance,  on 
behalf  of  any  person  going  out,  as  proposed 
under  the  sanction  of  tiie  Society;  but  they 
engage  to  exert  themselves  to  procure  for 
such  person,  and  for  his  wife,  (if  married,)  a 
free  passage  to  I'itcairn's  Island. 


THE  noMAN  CATHOLIC  CHUHCII. 

Cardinal  Delia  Genga  was  elected  Pope  on 
the  27th  of  September,  and  has  taken  the  ti- 
tle of  Leo  XII.  He  is  an  Italian,  born  at  the 
Castle  of  De  la  Genga,  2d  of  August,  176'  . — 
The  Journal  des  Debats,  says  he  is  a  man  of 
great  learning,  accustomed  to  business,  and  of 
irreproachable  morals.  He  was  Nuncio  dur- 
ing 14  years  in  the  electorates  of  the  Rhine. 
At  the  moment  of  his  nomination  he  was  Car- 
dinal Vicar,  that  is,  administrator,  as  regards 
spiritual  aflairs,  of  the  diocess  of  Kome. 


Bomt.^tic  i^ntrUisrnce* 


HEVIVALS  OF  heligion. 

We  perceive  that  these  auspicious  indications 
of  the  divine  favor  to  our  churches,  which 
were  comparatively  few  during  the  summer 
months,  are  increayng.  '■  e  introduce  our 
present  account  with  a  letter  from  that  well 
known  agent  in  revivals  of  religion,  Rev.  Asa- 
hel  Nettletoii,  to  the  Editor  of  ihe  Christian 
Mirror.  The  letter  is  dated  I5olton,Con.  Nov. 
25,  1823. 

The  revival  of  religion  in  the  eastern  part 
of  the  state  of  Connecticut,  has  peihaps  nev- 
er been  more  inteiesting  than  Avithin  a  few 
weeks  past.  I  propose  to  give  you  the  out- 
lines of  it  from  its  commencement.  It  has 
heretofore  been  a  common  remark  among 
Christians,  that  revivals  have  ever  been  much 
less  frequent,  and  less  powerful,  in  the  east- 
ern, than  in  the  western  part  of  this  state. 
Many  of  these  churclies  have  in  years  past 
been  favored  with  seasons  more  or  less  re- 
viving; but  never  with  Buch  a  general  and 
powerful  refreshing  from  the  presence  of  the 
Lord. 

This  revival  commenced  in  Somers,  June 
1822;  and  has  continued,  increasing  and 
spreading  like  a  fire  fi-om  house  to  house,  and 
from  heart  to  heart,  over  sixteen  or  eightei-n 
churclies  and  consregations,  with  more  or  less 
power  and  rapidity  until  the  present  mo- 
ment. 

The  following  towns  and  societies  are  con- 
tiguous, and  have  all  shared  in  one  extensive 
revival: 

In  Somers,  150  have  hopefully  been  made 
the  subjects  of  divine  grace.  In  South  ^^'il- 
braham"  100.    In  Ellington  it  commenced  with 


poM'er  in  one  congregation,  and,  within  a  few 
days,  a  number  were  rejoicing  in  hope,  when 
all  at  once  it  stopped!  In  Tolland,  during  one 
week,  30  were  rejoicing  in  hope:  the  number 
of  hopeful  conversions  there  is  130.  In  North 
Coventry  120.  In  South  Coventry,  North 
Mansfield,  and  South  Mansfield,  about  100 
each.  In  Columbia  40.  In  Lebanon  90.  In 
Goshen  30.  In  Bozrah  between  6i!  and  70. 
In  Montville  90.  In  Chaplin  50.  The  work 
has  recently  commenced,  and  is  advancing 
with  power  in  Hampton,  and  within  a  few 
weeks,  50  or  more  are  rejoicing  in  hope. 

Within  a  few  weeks  past,  the  spirit  of  God 
has  descended  with  an  overwhelming  power 
in  Miliington  and  Colchester.  In  the  former 
place  about  70,  and  in  the  latter,  60  are  al- 
ready rejoicing  in  hope.  They  have  never 
before  witnessed  the  like  in  rapidity,  i)ower 
nnd  extent  In  the  above  cluster  of  towns  all 
contiguous,  more  than  1300  souls  have  hope- 
fully experienced  a  saving  change  in  the  Con- 
gregational churches  since  the  commence- 
ment of  this  revival;  and  of  these,  mere  than 
8U0  have  already  made  a  public  profession  of 
religion. 

In  Chatham  also,  the  work  has  been  inter- 
esting; about  70  are  rejoicing  in  hope,  aarl 
50  or  more  have  made  a  public  profession.  In 
Miliington,  55  are  expecting  to  unite  vfith 
the  church  on  the  next  .Sabbath.  In  Hamp- 
ton, Colchester,  and  Miliington,  many  are 
now  anxious  for  their  souls,  and  inquiring 
"what  must  I  do  to  be  saved?"  New  instances 
of  sinners  under  conviction,  and  of  others, 
"who  have  the  new  song  put  into  their 
mouth,"  are  daily  occurring  in  these  towns. 
The  prospect  of  the  continuance,  and  spread 
of  this  work  is  as  favorable  now,  if  not  more 
so,  than  at  any  former  period. 


1824. 


Revivals  of  Religion Formation  of  Associations. 


25 


J^eiu-Hampshire. — Tliere  is  said  to  be  a 
very  unusual  attention  to  religion  in  Leices- 
ter. In  Rochester,  also,  a  revival  has  com- 
menced witU  encouraging  prospects.  As 
the  result  of  a  recent  revival  in  North-Hamp- 
ton, which  contains  less  than  800  iuhabitanls, 
nearly  50  have  been  received  to  the  cliurcli, 
and  otliers  are  regarded  as  fair  candidates  lor 
admission.  Of  the  happy  effects  of  the  revi- 
val, the  Rev.  .].  French  bears  the  following 
testimony. 

The  fruits  of  this  attention,  as  far  as  we  can 
yet  judge,  are  very  encouraging.  The  great- 
er part  of  our  choir  of  singers  are  now  pro- 
fessors of  religion.  The  taste  of  a  large  pro- 
portion of  our  young  peoiile  is  apparently 
changed.  'I'heir  former  parties  of  worldly 
pleasure  have  been  exchanged  for  meetings 
for  mental  improvement,  deeds  of  benevo- 
lence and  prayer. 

J\reiu-York. — In  A.ugusta  a  revival  com- 
menced the  last  summer,  which  still  contin- 
ues. Hopes  are  entertained  of  the  convei- 
sion  of  more  than  SO  persons,  and  many  are 
in  an  anxious,  inquiring  state  of  mind.  "These 
showers  of  grace  are  extending  westward 
SVom  Augusta,  and  mark  their  progress  with 
pleasing  indications  of  an  extensive  outpour- 
ing  of  the  divine  spirit  in  several  neighbor- 
hoods." 

MolMvik  Indians. — A  letter  from  the  Rev. 
Wm.  Case,  inserted  in  the  Methodist  Maga- 
zine for  November,  states  that  a  very  serious 
attention  to  religion  now  prevails  among  the 
Mohawk  Indians  on  Grand  River,  in  Upper 
Canada.  He  says,  it  is  most  affecting  to  hear 
these  children  of  the  forest,  in  their  native 
Mohawk  or  Messasaugah,  lamenting  their 
sins,  or  giving  glory  to  God  for  redemption 
through  the  Savior.  About  twelve  or  four- 
teen have  indulged  a  joyful  hope.  Others  are 
earnestly  seeking  the  pardon  of  their  sins. 
Several  drunkards  have  become  sober  men. 

JVorth  Carolina. — There  are  said  to  be  re- 
vivals in  the  following  places: — Cane  Creek 
and  Sal.em,  Orange  County;  Sandy  Creek, 
Rocky  Spring,  Abbot's  Creek  Church,  and 
Hoco  River  Mountain. 

Illinois  and  Alissotcvi. — Concerning  the 
state  of  religion  in  this  section  of  country,  the 
Rev.  J.  M.  Peck  thus  writes  to  us. 

In  Illinois  and  Missouri  the  prospects  with 
respect  to  religion,  are  more  favorable  than 
they  have  been  for  six  years  past,  which  is 
the  term  of  ray^residence  in  this  country.  In 
the  county  of  Boon's  Lick,  Missouri,  an  ex- 
VOL.    XX. 


tensive  revival  of  religion  has  existed  for  more 
than  a  year.  U|)\vai(|s  of  5<iO  liiive  been  lidd- 
ed to  the  Uaptist  churches,  and  considerable 
numbers  to  the  Cuniberl.ind  Pi  t  sby  lerians, 
and  other  soceties.  In  several  seiilement£. 
in  Illir.oi:,  al.'^o,  the  spirit  of  serious  inquiry  is 
increasing.  .Vlibsionarits  are  greatly  ne<-ded 
in  this  country. 

American  Boartf  of-  ^immw, 

FoniyiATlON  OF  ASSOClATlOiVS, 

Massachusktts — At  a  meeting  of  the  For- 
eign .Missionary  Society  of  Northampton  and 
the  neighboring  towns,  not  long  since,  a  com- 
mittee, appointed  to  consider  the  propriety  of 
increased  exertions  in  aid  of  missions,  report- 
ed in  fnor  of  establishing  in  each  town  Associ- 
ations of  gentlemen  and  ladies,  on  the  plan  de- 
scribed at  p.  366  of  our  last  volnme.  At  this 
meeting  tlie  following  resolution,  among  oth- 
ers, was  passed;  riz. 

That  a  committee  be  appointed  at  each  an- 
nual meeting,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  dele- 
gate one  or  more  of  their  number  to  attend 
the  anniversaries  of  the  different  Associations, 
whether  of  males  or  females,  which  maybe 
hereafter  formed;  and  that  said  committee 
make  such  airangements  among  themselves, 
as  may  seem  to  them  best  fitted  to  produce  a 
more  steady  and  vigorous  support  of  the  cause 
of  missions. 

Agents  were  also  appointed  to  visit  the  sev- 
eral towns  within  the  limits  of  the  Society, 
and  other  towns  in  the  county  according  to 
their  discretion,  for  the  purpose  of  aiding  iri 
the  formation  of  Associations. 

A  meeting  of  several  of  the  clergy  of  Wor- 
cester county  was  held  at  Worcester,  on  the 
12th  ult.,  when,  after  prayer  and  consulta- 
tion, it  was  resolved  unanimously;  that  they 
warmly  approved  of  making  efforts  to  increase 
the  exei'tlons  of  Christians  in  that  vicinity,  in 
aid  of  the  missionary  cause;  and  that  they 
j  cordially  received  Mr.  Samuel  A.Worcester, 
as  an  agent  of  the  American  Board  of  For- 
eign Missions,  and  would  cheerfully  assist 
him,  in  their  respective  spheres  of  action  and 
influence,  to  the  utmost  of  their  power  They 
also  recommended  that  where  Associations, 
subsidiary  to  the  County  Society,  were  al- 
ready formed,  the  agent  should  labor  to  in- 
crease subscriptions  to  these  Associations; 
and  that  where  they  were  not  formed,  he 
should  endeavor  to  establish  them. 

Connecticut;  Hartford  County,  Farming- 
ton;  First  Parish.    Gentlemen's  Association 
4 


26        Ejiiscofial  Church Abolitionof  Privateering Hodgson'' s  Letters,    Jan 

Rhode  Island,  6 — Connecticut,  46 — N.York, 
94— New-Jersey,  13 — Pennsylvania,  36 — 
Delaware,  3 — Maryland,  44 — Virginia,  33 — 
Nortli  Carolina,  8 — South  Carolina,  27 — 
Ohio,  6 — Georgia,  4. 


Rev.  JSToah  Porter,  President;  Gen.  Solomon 
Co-wles,  Vice  President;  Samuel  Richards, 
Secretary;  Edward  Hooker,  Treasurer;  and 
ten  Collectors,  one  in  each  school-district. 
Formed,  Dec  4th. — Ladies's  Association: — 
Mrs,  Roger  Hooker,  Prest-;  Mrs.  jVoah  Por- 
/er.  Vice  Prest ;  Mrs.  JVlartin  Cowles,  Sec'y; 
Mrs.  Edward  Hooker,  TresLS.;  and  ten  Col- 
lectors, all  young  ladies.     Formed  Dec.  4th. 

Second  Parish.  Gentlemen's  Association: 
Rev.  Harvey Bushnell,  Prest.;  .Ashbel  Tillot- 
8071,  V.  Prest.;  Rufus  F.  Hawley,  Sec'y;  Ro- 
ger Woodjord,  Treas.;  and  three  Collectors. 
Formed,  Dec.  1 1th.  Ladies's  Association: — 
Mrs.  Ruftis Ha^vley,  Prest.;  Mrs.  Jlshbel  Til- 
lotson,  V.  Prest.;  Mrs.  Zerah  Woodford, 
Sec'y;  Mrs.  Riijus  F.  Haivley,  Treas.;  and 
three  Collectors.     Formed,  Dec.  llth. 

TIdrd  Parish.  Gentlemen's  Association: 
Rev.  Bela  Kellogg,  Prest.;  JSTathan  Cate, 
V.  Prest.;  Charles  Whittlesey,  Sec'y;  Oba- 
diah  Gillet,  Treas.;  and  three  Collectors. 
Formed,  Dec.  8th. — Ladies's  Association. — 
Mrs.  Bela  Kellogg,  Prest.:  Mrs.  Amos 
Phelps,  V. Prest.;  Mrs.  Dan  Deming,  Sec'y; 
Mrs.  Goff,  Treas.;  and  three  Collectors, 
young  ladies. 

Mr.  Elnathan  Gridley  is  employed,  at  pres- 
entj  as  an  agent  of  the  Board  in  that  County. 


EPISCOPAL  CHURCH    IN  THE  UNITED  STATES, 

The  number  of  Bishops  in  the  United 
States  is  tO,  viz. — 

William  White,  D.  D.  of  Pennsylvania. 

John  H.  Hobart,  D.  D.  of  New  York. 

Alexander  V.Gris  wold,  D.  D.  of  the  Eastern 
Diocess,  comprising  the  states  of  Maine, 
N.  Hampshire,  Massachusetts,  Vermont,  and 
R.  Island. 

Richard  C.  Moore,  D.  D.  of  Virginia. 

James  Kemp,  D.  D.  of  Maryland. 

John  Croes,  D.  D.  of  New-Jersey. 

Nathaniel  Bowen,  D.  D.  of  South  Carolina. 

Philander  Chase,  D.  D.  of  Ohio. 

Thomas  C.  Brownell,  D.  D.  L.  L.  D.  of 
Conneetrcut. 

John  S.  Ravenscroft,  D.  D.  of  North  Caro- 
lina. 

The  number  of  Clergy,  exclusive  of  the 
Bishops,  is  358,  viz. — inMaine,2 — N.  Hamp- 
shire,  4— Massachusetts,   29 — Vermont,  7 — 


ABOLITION    OF    PHIVATEEHING. 

It  is  in  accordance  with  our  duties  as  mission- 
ary heralds  to  proclaim  whatever  has  a  ten- 
dency  to  meliorate  the  condition  and  improve 
the  character  of  our  species;  for  it  is  by  such 
changes  for  the  better,  that  the  predicted 
epoch  of  millennial  bliss  upon  the  earth,  is  to 
advance.  Such  a  tendency,  we  conceive,  has 
the  following  paragraph  from  the  message  of 
the  President  of  the  United  States  to  the  pres, 
ent  Congress. 

At  the  commencement  of  the  recent  war 
between  France  and  Spain,  it  was  declared 
by  the  French  government  that  it  would 
grant  no  commissions  to  privateers,  and  that 
neither  the  commerce  of  Spain  herself,  nor 
of  neutral  nations,  should  be  molested  by  the 
naval  force  of  France,  except  in  the  breach  of 
a  lawful  blockade.  This  declaration,  which, 
appears  to  have  been  faithfully  carried  into  ef- 
fect, concurring  with  principles  proclaimed 
and  cherished  by  the  United  States,  from  the 
first  establishment  of  their  independence,  sug- 
gested the  hope  that  the  time  had  arrived 
when  the  proposal  for  adopting  it  as  a  perma- 
nent and  invariable  rule  in  all  future  maritime 
wars,  might  meet  the  favorable  consideration 
of  the  great  European  powers.  Instructions 
have  accordingly  been  given  to  our  ministers 
with  France,  Russia,  and  Great  Britian,  to 
make  those  proposals  to  their  respective  gov- 
ernments; and,  when  the  friends  of  humanity 
reflect  on  the  essential  melioration  of  the  con- 
dition of  the  human  race,  which  would  result 
from  the  abolition  of  private  waron  the  sea, and 
the  great  facility  by  which  it  might  be  accom- 
plished,  requiring  only  the  consent  of  a  few 
sovereigns,  an  earnest  hope  is  indulged  that 
these  overtures  will  meet  with  an  attention, 
animated  by  the  spirit  in  which  they  were 
made,  and  that  they  will  ultimately  be  sue- 
cessful. 


J^t0crUantt<>* 


HOGDSON'S  LETTERS. 

Remarks  during  a  journey  through  North  America  in 
the  year  1819,  1820,  and  1821,  in  a  series  of  Letters :&c 
witK  an  AppendLx,  containing  an  account  of  several  of 
the  Indian  Tribes,  and  the  principal  Missionary  Sta- 
tions, &c.;  also,  a  letter  to  Mr.  Jean  Baptistc  Say,  on 
the  compai-ntive  pxpense  of  Free  iind  Slave  labor.  By 
Adam  Hodgson,  Esq.  of  Livei-pool.  Eng.  Collected,  ar- 
ranged, and  published  by  Samuel  Whiting.  New  York, 
1823.  pp.  3.35. 

We  might  easily  shew,  that  it  comes  within 
the  design  of  the  Missionary  Herald  to  notice 
this  publication.     If  there  were  no  other  rea- 


sons, the  view  of  the  Indians  and  of  Missiona- 
ry Stations,  in  the  Appendix,  taken  in  con- 
nexion "with  the  general  merit  of  the  work, 
would  he  sufficient.  But  there  runs  through 
the  whole  book  such  a  decided  predilection  in 
favor  of  benevolent  institutions  and  opera- 
tions, and  there  is  so  much  that  is  adapted  to 
secure  for  them  respect  and  aid;  besides  the 
many  just  and  interesting  views  which  are 
given  of  our  country;  that  we  are  desivous  of 


1824. 


J\''otice  of  Hodgson's  Letters. 


Z7 


doing  what  we  can  to  draw  towards  it  gener- 
al attention. 

The  letters  of  Mr.  Hodgson  were  originally 
published  in  the  London  Christian  Observer, 
and  were  received,  we  understand,  very  cor- 
dially by  the  readers  of  that  highly  respectable 
work.  We  have  repeatedly  observed  him  de- 
signated, by  his  countrymen,  as  the  "  popular 
tourist;"  and  there  are  already,  many  proofs 
that  his  letters  have  exerted  a  salutary  influ- 
ence on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlaiitie,  in  the 
way  of  diminishing  prejudice,  and  removing 
misapprehension,  with  respect  to  this  country. 

From  Mr.  Hodgson's  description  of  his  vis- 
it to  Elliot  and  Brainerd,  with  his  eloquent 
reflections  on  the  state  and  prospecte  of  the 
Indians,  we  made  copious  extracts  in  our  18lh 
volume,  pp.  149—153  and  18J— 185.  These 
extracts  of  course  we  shall  not  repeat.  But 
In  the  6th  letter  is  a  passage,  which  as  it  re- 
lates to  his  visit  to  the  former  place,  and  in- 
volves no  repetition,  we  cannot  forbear  copy- 
ing it.  It  is  a  good  specimen  of  Mr.  Hodg- 
son's manner. 

Never  shall  I  forget  my  sensations  the  two 
nights  I  passed  in  Mr.  Kingsbury's  little  room, 
which  was  kindly  and  couii.eously  assigned  to 
nie  during  my  stay.  A  loij  cabin,  detached 
from  the  other  wooden  buildings,  in  the  mid- 
dle of  a  boundless  forest,  in  an  Indian  coun- 
try, consecrated,  if  1  may  be  allowed  the  ex- 
pression, by  standing  on  missionaj-y  groumi, 
and  by  forming  at  once  the  dormitory  and  the 
sanctuary  of  a  "man  of  God;"  it  seemed  to  be 
indeed  the  prophet's  chamber,  with  "the  bed 
and  the  table,  and  the  stool  and  the  candle- 
stick." It  contained,  also,  a  little  book-case, 
with  a  valuable  selection  of  pious  books,  peri- 
odical, biographical,  and  devotional;  among 
which  I  found  many  an  old  acquaintance  in 
this  foreign  land,  and  which  enable  .Vir  Kings- 
bury, in  his  few  moments  of  leisure,  to  con- 
verse with  many,  who  have  long  since  joined 
the  spirits  of  just  men  made  perfect,  or  to 
sympathize  with  his  fellow  laborers  in  Ota- 
heite,  Africa,  or  Hindoostan. 

Mr.  Kingsbury  spent  a  great  part  of  the 
second  night  in  my  room,  inquiring  with  great 
interest,  about  England,  and  other  parts  of 
Europe,  with  respect  to  which  his  intelligence 
liad  been  very  scanty  since  his  seclusion 
among  the  Indians.  About  midnight,  we  be- 
came thirsty  with  talking  so  much;  and  .Mr. 
Kingsbury  proposed  that  we  should  walk  to 
the  spring  at  a  little  distance.  The  night  was 
beautifully  serene  after  the  heavy  showers  of 
the  preceding  evening,  and  the  coilness  of  the 
air,  the  fresh  fragrance  of  the  trees,  the  deep 
stillness  of  the  midnight  hour,  and  the  soft 
light  which  an  unclouded  moon  shed  on  the 
log-cabins  of  the  missionaries,  contrasteil  with 
the  dark  shadows  of  the  surrounding  forest, 
impressed  me  with  feelings  which  I  never 
can  forget.  We  looked  cautiously  around  us, 
(pst  we  should  be   surprised  by    wild  beasts; 


and  Mr.  Kingsbury  stopped  to  point  out  to 
me  a  plant,  which,  if  swallowed  immediately 
after  the  attack  of  a  rattle-snake,  proves  an 
eft'ectual  antidote  to  the  poison.  He  said  that 
he  never  stirred  from  home  without  some  of 
it  in  liis  waistcoat  pocket:  and  that  in  the 
state  of  Mississippi,  it  was  commonly  carrietl 
by  all  persons  who  traversed  the  forest.  I 
could  not  help  regnrditig  this  as  a  fresh  illus- 
tration of  that  providential  kindness  which  so 
frequently  ordains  the  proximity  of  the  bane 
and  antidote,    pp.  CO — 62. 

The  Letter  "on  the  comparative  expense 
of  free  and  slave  labor,"  is  deserving  of  seri- 

:  ous  attention  from  the  owner  of  slaves,  as  well 

j  as  from  the  political  economist. 

1  From  the  Letters,  which  form  the  great- 
er, and  not  least   interesting  part  of  the  vol- 

!  ume,  we  now  make  some  further  extracts; 
but  shall  not  remark  upon  them,  their  pur- 
port being  sufficiently  obvious. 

Our  boarding  house  is  near  the  Mississippi, 
which  is  now  falling  a  foot  every  day;  the 
spring  flood  having  reached  its  height  while  I 
was  at  New-Orleans;  but  the  flood  from  the 
Missouri  bus  not  yet  arrived.  Nearly  oppo- 
site the  windows  of  the  room  in  which  I  am 
writing,  the  river  takes  one  of  its  noblest 
sweeps,  under  what  are  called  the  Bluffs, 
from  which  you  look  down  over  it  upon  a 
dense  forest,  wiiich  stretches  to  the  horizoij, 
and  in  which  the  sun  seems  to  extinguish  his 
latest  rays.  On  these  Bluffs  1  generally  take 
my  evening  walk,  and  please  myself  with  the 
idea  that  a  few  hours  previously,  you  may 
have  been  watching  the  setting  of  this  glori- 
ous luminai-y  behind  our  favorite  hills;  for  iu 

"These  lands,  beneath  Hesperian  skies, 
Our  ilajliirlit  sojourns,  till  your  mon-ow  rise." 

Indeed  there  is  something  in  the  vicinity  of 
Natchez  which  perpetually  reminds  me  of 
home.  The  thick  clover,  the  scattered  knolls 
with  their  wood-crowned  summits,  differing 
only  from  those  most  familiar  to  nse  in 
the   magnificence  of  the  foliage   with    which 

i  they  are  shaded,  and  the  neat  husbandry  of 
the  intervening  plantations,  give   the   whole 

'  country  the  appearance  of  an  English  park. 

I  An  Irishman  with  whom  I  was  riding  last 
night  remarked,  that  the  roads  strongly  re- 
semble tliose  through  the  large  domains  in 
Ireland.  1  leave  you  to  make  due  allowance 
for  our  anxiety  to  trace  every  little  resem- 
blance to  our  native  land.  At  this  distance 
from  home,  we  are  not  solicitous  by  too  accu. 
rate  a  discrimination  to  dispel  an  illusion,  if 
it  be  one,  which  affords  us  so  much  pleasure. 
You  remember  Humboldt's  beautiful  obser- 
vation: "If  amid  this  exotic  nature,  the  bel- 
low of  a  cow,  or  the  roaring  of  a  bull  were 
heard  from  the  depth  of  a  valley,  the  remem- 
brance of  our  country  was  awakened  sudden- 
ly at  the  sound.  They  were  like  distant  voi- 
ces resounding  from  beyond  the  ocean,  and 
with  magical  "force  transporting  us  from  one 
hemisphere  to  the  other."      But  the  gigantic 


Indian  Account  of  the  Arrival  of  the  Dutch, 


JaK- 


plane  ami  maple  trees,  a  large  proportion  of 
ihe  seventy  or  eighty  cliftertiit  species  of  the 
Ameiican  oak,  tlie  Sassafras,  the  Iliccory, 
the  Pride  of  India,  the  Gatalpa,  the  Liquid 
Amber  Slyraciflua,  the  Liriodendron  Tulipi- 
fera,  above  all,  the  Magnolia  Grandiflora,  one 
hundred  feet  high,  with  its  deep  green  leaves 
;uul  broad  white  flowers  expanded  like  a  full 
blown  rose,  remind  us  that  we  are  far  from 
home;  while  at  night  the  biilliaucy  of  the 
stars,  the  delicious  fragrance  of  the  surround- 
ing woods,  and  especially  the  fire-flies  which 
sparkle  on  every  side,  seem  almost  to  trans- 
port us  into  the  regioiis  of  eastern  romance. 
We  are  also  often  gratified  with  the  sight  of 
many  beautiful  bifcis  which  are  strangers  to 
us,  and  sometimes  catch  a  glimpse  of  the  wild 
deer.    pp.  167 — 1G9. 

Churches  are  not  religion;  nor  the  ministra- 
tions of  a  pastor,  an  unerring  criterion  of  the 
piety  of  his  hearers.  In  a  country,  however, 
in  which  contributions  to  places  of  public  wor- 
ship are  for  the  most  part  voluntary,  a  liberal 
dissemination  of  sacred  edifices  is  a  very  fa- 
vorable symptom;  while  the  nuniber  of  faith- 
ful ministers,  and  the  frequent  occui  reiict  of 
large  congregations  listening  attentively  to  un- 
welcome truths  from  pastors  apiiointcd  by 
their  own  election,  and  dependent  on  them 
for  support,  afford  something  more  than  a 
vague  presumption  of  the  existence  of  no  in- 
considerable degree  of  vital  piety  in  the  com- 
in  unity. 

My  favorable  impressions  were  strengthen- 
ed as  I  proceeded,  by  noticing  the  attention 
generally  paid  on  the  Atlantic  coast  to  the 
external  observance  of  the  Sal. bath;  by  meet- 
ing continually  with  Bibles,  and  othr:r  religious 
books,  in  the  steam-boats  and  houses  of  en- 
tertainment; and  by  witnessing  the  efforts 
every  where  apparent  for  the  extension  of 
(Jhristian  piety,     p.  49. 

On  my  return  from  Canada  through  Ver- 
mont and  New-Hampshire,  I  visited  the  The- 
ological Institution  at  Aiidover;  where  the 
handsome  collegiate  edifice,  the  spacious 
grounds,  the  houses  of  the  professors,  and 
the  excellent  iiin  in  sotne  degree  attached  to 
the  establishment,  bore  as  ample  testimony 
to  the  munificence,  as  the  object  of  the  insti- 
tution to  the  piety,  of  its  founders.  It  is  from 
this  establishment  that  the  American  Board 
of  Missions  has  drawn  nearly  all  its  laborers. 
After  tea  we  adjourned  to  the  college  chapel, 
where  religious  intelligence  from  various  parts 
of  the  United  States  was  communicated  by 
the  students  or  professors.  We  had  then 
prayers,  after  which  we  separated.  It  was 
a  beautiful  star-light  night  in  autumn;  and 
while  looking  out  of  my  window,  at  midnight, 
on  this  quiet  scene — where  many  who  were 
then  labeling  in  distant  regions  of  the  globe 
first  felt  those  ardent  aspirings  after  extensive 
future  usefulness,  which  prompted  them  to 
encounter  the  trials  of  a  missionary  life,  and 
where  many  were  then  preparing  for  the 
same  honorable  enterprise — I  could  not  but 
Contrast  the  privileges  of  a  life  thus  earl}-  and 
entirely  dedicated  to  the  noblest  cause,  with 
those  of  the  most  successful  commercial  or 
political  career,  where  the  flame  of  pietv,  if 
liot   extinguished    by   the   very   atmosphere 


which  surrounds  it,  is  exposed  to  a  thousand 
blasts  fjom  which  the  religious  zeal  of  tbe 
missionary  is  sheltered  by  his  peculiar  situa* 
tion.     pp.  51,  52. 

AMEHICAN    INDIANS. 

Indian  account  of  the  first  arrival  of  the 
Dutch  at  Aew  York  Island. 

This  and  the  succeeding  notice  of  the 
traditions,  manners  and  customs  of  the  abori- 
gines of  this  country,  are  from  the  interest- 
ing pen  of  the  late  Rev.  Mr.  Heche  welder, 
for  a  longtime  a  Moravian  missionary  among 
them.  It  will  appear  from  the  first  extract, 
that  at  least  the  Indians  on  the  Hudson  River 
did  not  conceive  of  God  as  a  spirit.  Indeed  it 
does  not  appear,  that  the  Indians  had  in  their 
languages,  at  the  time  this  country  was  set- 
tled by  the  whites,  if  they  have  now,  any  word 
corresponding  with  "Great  Spirit." 

The  Lenni  Lenape  claim  the  honor  of  hav- 
ing received  and  welcomed  the  Europeans  on 
their  first  arrival  in  the  country  ,  situated  be- 
tween New  England  and  Virginia.  It  is  pro- 
bable, however,  that  tbe  Mahicani  or  Mohi- 
cans, who  then  inhal)ited  the  banks  of  the 
Hudson,  concurred  in  the  hospitable  aet. 
The  relation  I  am  going  to  make  was  taketi 
down  many  years  since  fiom  the  mouth  of  an 
intelligent  Delaware  Indian,  and  may  be  con- 
sidered as  a  correct  account  of  the  traditioti 
existing  among  them  of  this  momentous 
event.  I  give  it  as  much  as  possible  in  their 
own  language. 

A  great  many  years  ago,  when  men  with  a 
white  skin  had  never  yet  been  seen  in  this 
land,  some  Indians  who  were  out  a  fishing  at 
a  place  where  the  sea  widens,  espied  at  a  great 
distance  something  remarkably  large  float- 
ing on  the  water,  and  such  as  they  had  never 
seen  before.  These  Indians  immediately  re- 
turning to  the  shore,  apprised  their  country- 
men of  what  they  had  observed,  and  pressed 
them  to  go  out  with  them  and  discover  what 
it  might  be.  They  hurried  out  together,  and 
saw  w  ith  astonishment  the  phenomenon  which 
now  appeared  to  their  sight;  but  could  not 
agree  upon  what  it  was;  some  believed  it  to 
be  an  uncommonly  large  fish  or  animal,  while 
others  were  of  opinion  it  must  be  a  very  big 
house  floating  on  ths  sea.  At  length  the  spec- 
tators  concluded  that  this  wonderful  object 
was  moving  towards  the  land,  and  that  it  must 
be  an  animal  or  something  else  that  had  life 
in  it;  it  would  therefore  be  proper  to  inform 
ail  the  Indians  on  the  inhabited  islands  of  what 
they  had  seen,  and  put  them  on  their  guard. 
Accordingly  they  sentoft'a  number  of  runners 
and  watermen  to  carry  the  news  to  their 
scattered  chiefs,  that  they  might  send  off  in 
every  direction  for  tbe  warriors,  with  a  mes- 
sage that  thty  shoubl  come  on  immediatelj". 
These  arriving  in  numbers,  and  having  them- 
selves viewed  the  strange  appearance,  and  ob- 
serving that  it  was  actually  moving  towards 
the  entrance  of  the  river  or  bay;  concluded 
it  to  be  a  remarkably  large  house  in  w  hich  the 


1824. 


Indian  Account  of  the  Arrival  of  the  Dutch. 


29 


Mannitto  (the  Great  or  Supreme  Being) 
himself  was  present,  and  that  lie  probably 
was  coming  to  visit  lliem.  By  this  time  the 
chiefs  were  assembled  at  York  Islaml  and  de- 
liberating in  what  manner  ihey  should  receive 
their  Mannitto  on  his  arrival-  Every  mea- 
sure was  taken  to  be  well  provided  with  plen- 
ty of  meat  for  a  sacrifice.  The  women  were 
desired  to  prepare  the  Lest  victuals.  -^H  the 
idols  or  images  were  examined  anil  putiu  or- 
der, and  a  grand  dance  was  supposed  not  only 
to  be  an  agreeable  entertainment  for  the 
Great  Being,  but  it  was  believed  that  it  might, 
with  llie  addition  of  a  sacrifice,  contribute  to 
appease  him  if  he  was  angry  with  them.  I'he 
conjurers  were  also  set  to  woik,  to  determine 
what  tills  phenomenon  portended,  and  what 
the  possible  result  of  it  might  be.  l  o  these 
and  to  the  chiefs  and  wise  men  of  the  nations, 
men,  women  and  children  were  looking  up 
for  advice  and  protection.  Distracted  be- 
tween hope  and  fear,  tney  were  at  a  loss  what 
to  do;  a  dance,  however,  commenced  in  great 
confusion.  While  in  this  situation,  fresh  run- 
ners arrive  declaring  it  to  be  a  large  house  of  va- 
rious colors,  and  crouded  with  living  creatures. 
It  appears  now  to  be  certain,  that  it  is  the 
great  Mannitto,  bringing  them  some  kind  of 
game,  such  as  he  had  not  given  them  bet'ore, 
but  other  runners  soon  arriving  declai-e  that 
it  is  positively  a  house  full  of  human  beings, 
of  quite  a  different  color  from  that  of  the  In- 
dians, and  dressed  dift'erently  fiom  them;  that 
in  particular  one  of  theni  was  dressed  entire- 
ly in  red,  who  must  be  the  -Man iiitlo  himself. 
They  are  hailed  from  the  vessel  in  a  language 
fhey  do  not  understand,  yet  they  shout  or 
yell  in  return  by  way  of  answer,  according  to 
tlie  custom  of  their  country;  many  <<re  for 
running  off  to  the  woods,  but  are  pressed  by 
others  to  stMV,  in  order  not  to  give  offence  to 
their  visitor,  who  might  find  them  out  and 
destroy  them.  The  house,  some  say,  large 
canoe,  at  last  stops,  and  a  canoe  of  a  smaller 
size  comes  on  shore  with  the  red  man  and 
some  others  in  it;  some  stay  with  his  canoe 
to  guard  it.  The  chiefs  and  wise  men,  assem- 
bled in  council,  form  themselves  into  a  large 
circle,  towards  which  the  iiian  in  red  clothes 
approaches  with  two  others.  He  salutes  thern 
with  a  friendly  countenance,  and  ihey  return 
the  salute  after  their  manner.  Tliey  are  lost 
in  admiration;  the  dress,  the  manners,  the 
whole  appearance  of  the  unknown  strangers 
is  to  them  a  subject  of  wonder;  but  they  are 
particularly  struck  with  him  who  wore  the 
red  coat  all  glittering  with  gold  lace,  which 
they  could  in  no  manner  account  for.  He, 
surely,  must  be  the  great  Mannitto,  but  why 
should  lie  have  a  while  skin?  Meanwhile,  a 
large  Ilackhack''  is  brought  by  one  of  his  ser- 
vants, from  which  an  unknown  substance  is 
poured  out  into  a  small  cup  oi'  glass  and  handed 
to  the  supposed  Mannitto.  He  drinks — has  the 
glass  filled  again, and  hands  it  to  the  chiefslanil- 
ing  next  to  him.  The  chief  receives  it,bui  only 
smells  the  contents  and  passes  it  on  to  the 
next  chief,  who  does  the  same.  The  glass  or 
cup  thus  passes  through  the  circle,  without 
the  liquor  being  tasted  by  any  one,  and  is  iip- 

'Hackhack  is  properly  a  gourd,  but  since  they  have 
seen  plass  bottles  and  decanters,  they  call  them  by  thn 
s;itnc-  name. 


j  On  the  point  of  being  returned  to  the  red 
clothed  Mannitto,  when  one  of  the  Indians, 
a  brave  man  and  a  great  warrior,  suddenly 
jumps  up  and  harangues  the  assembly  on  the 
impropriety  of  returning  the  cup  with  Its  con- 
tents. It  was  handed  to  them,  says  he,  by  the 
Mannitto,  that  they  should  drink  out  of  it,  as 
he  himself  had  done.  To  follow  his  example 
would  be  pleasing  to  him;  but  to  return  what 
he  had  given  them  might  provoke  his  wrath, 
and  bring  destruction  on  them.  And  since 
the  orator  believed  it  for  the  good  of  the  na- 
tion th:.t  the  contents  offered  them  should  be 
drunk,  and  as  no  one  else  would  do  it,  he 
would  drink  it  himself,  let  the  consequence  be 
what  it  might;  it  was  better  for  one  man  to 
die,  thau  that  a  whole  nation  should  be  des- 
troyed. He  then  took  the  glass,  and  bidding 
the  assembly  a  solemn  farewell,  at  once  drank 
up  its  whole  contents  Every  eye  was  fi.\ed 
On  the  resoluie  chief,  to  see  what  effect  the  un- 
known liquor  woulil  produce.  He  soon  be- 
gan to  stagger,  aiid  at  last  fell  prostrate  on 
the  ground.  His  companions  now  bemoan 
his  (ate,  he  falls  into  a  sound  sleep,  and  they 
think  he  has  expired.  He  wakes  again,  jumps 
up  and  declares,  that  he  has  enjoyed  the  most 
delicious  sensations,  and  that  he  never  before 
felt  himself  so  happy  as  after  he  had  drunk 
the  cup  He  asks  for  more,  his  wish  is  grant- 
ed; the  whole  assembly  then  imitate  him,  and 
all  become  intoxicated. 

After  this  general  intoxication  had  ceased, 
for  they  say  that  while  it  lasted  the  whites  had 
confined  themselves  to  their  vessel,  the  man 
with  the  red  clothes  returned  again,  and  dis- 
tributed presents  among  them,  consisting  of 
beads,  axes,  hoes,  and  stockings  such  as  the 
white  people  wear.  They  soon  became  familiar 
with  each  other,  and  began  to  converse  hy 
signs.  The  Dutch  made  them  unilerstand 
that  they  would  not  stay  here,  that  ihey  would 
return  home  again,  but  would  pay  them  ano- 
ther visit  the  next  year,  when  they  would 
bring  them  mi.Te  presents,  and  stay  with  ihera 
awhile;  but  as  they  could  not  live  without 
eating,  they  should  want  a  little  land  of  them 
to  sow  seeds,  in  order  to  raise  herbs  and  veg- 
etables to  put  into  their  broth.  They  went 
away  as  they  had  said,  and  returned  in  the 
following  seiison,  when  both  parties  were 
much  rejoiced  to  see  e.ach  other;  but  the 
whites  laughed  at  the  Indians,  seeing  that 
they  knew  not  the  use  of  the  axes  and  hoes 
they  had  given  them  the  year  before;  for 
they  had  these  hanging  to  their  breasts  as  or- 
naments, and  the  stockings  were  made  use  of 
as  tobacco  poiithes.  The  whites  now  put  han- 
dles to  the  former  for  them,  and  cut  trees 
down  before  their  eyes,  hoed  up  the  ground, 
and  put  tlie  stockings  on  their  legs.  Here, 
they  say,  a  general  laughter  ensued  among 
the  Indians,  that  they  had  rera.iined  igno- 
rant of  the  use  of  such  valuable  implements, 
and  had  borne  the  weight  of  such  heavy  metal 
hanging  to  their  necks,  for  such  a  length  of 
time.  They  took  every  white  man  they  saw 
for  an  inferior  Mannitto,  attendant  on  the 
supreme  Deity  who  shone  superior  in  the  red 
and  laced  clothes.  As  the  whites  became  dai- 
ly more  familiar  m  ith  the  Indians,  they  at  last 
proposed  to  stay  with  them,  and  asked  only 
for  so  much  ground  for  a  garden  spot  as,  they 


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said,  the  hide  of  a  bullock  would  cpver  or  en- 
compass, which  hide  was  spread  before  them. 
The  Indians  readily  granted  this  apparently 
reasonable  rccjuest;  but  tire  whites  then  took 
a  knife  and  beginning  at  one  end  of  the  hide, 
cat  it  up  to  a  long  rope,  not  thicker  than  a 
child's  finger,  so  that  by  the  time  the  whole 
was  cut  up,  it  made  a  great  heap;  they  then 
took  the  rope  at  one  end,  and  drew  it  gently 
along,  carefully  avoiding  its  breaking.  It  was 
drawn  out  into  a  circular  form,  and  being 
closed  at  its  ends,  encompassed  a  large  piece 
of  ground.  The  Indians  were  surprised  at  the 
superior  wit  of  the  whites,*  but  did  not  wish 
to  contend  with  them  about  a  little  land,  as 
they  had  still  enough  themselves.  The  while 
and  red  men  lived  contentedly  together  for 
a  long  time,  though  the  former  from  time  to 
time  asked  for  more  land,  which  was  readily 
obtained,  and  thus  they  gradually  proceeded 
higher  up  the  Mahicanltuok,  until  the  In- 
dians began  to  believe  that  they  would  soon 
want  all  their  country,  which  in  the  end  prov- 
ed true. 

Politeness  and  Hospitality  of  the  Indians. 

1  do  not  believe  that  there  exists  a 
people,  more  attentive  to  paying  common 
civilities  to  each  other,  than  the  Indians 
are;  but  this,  from  a  want  of  undeistanding 
their  language,  as  well  as  their  customs  and 
manners,  generally  escapes  the  notice  of  tra- 
vellers, although  some  ©f  them,  better  obser- 
vers than  the  rest,  have  touched  upon  this 
subject.  In  more  than  one  hundreil  instances, 
I  have  with  astonishment  and  delight  wit- 
nessed the  attention  paid  to  a  person  enter- 
ing the  house  of  another,  where,  in  the  first 
instance,  he  is  desired  to  seat  himself,  with 
the  woi'ds,  "sit  down  my  friend!"  if  he  is  a 
stranger,  or  no  relation,  but  if  a  relation,  the 
proper  title  is  added.  A  pei-son  is  never  left 
standing,  there  are  seats  for  all;  and  if  a  dozen 
should  follow  each  other  in  succession,  all  are 
provided  with  seats,  and  the  straiiger,if  a  white 
person,  with  the  best.  The  tobacco  pouch  next 
is  handed  round;  it  is  the  first  treat,  as  with 
■us  a  glass  of  wine  or  brandy.  Without  a  sin- 
gle ttord  passine;  between  the  man  atid  his 
wife,  she  will  go  about  preparing  soiiie  vict- 
tjals  for  the  company,  and  liuving  served  the 
visiters,  will  retire  to  a  neighbor's  house,  to 
inform  the  family  of  the  visit  with  which  her 
husband  is  honored,  never  grumbling  on  ac- 
count of  their  eating  up  the  i)rovisioiis,  even 
if  it  were  what  she  had  cooked  for  her  own 
family, considering  the  friendly  visit  well  worth 
this  small  trouble  and  e.vpeffse . 

It  is  true,  that  among  themselves,  they  ex- 
pect the  same  attention  and  hospitality  paid 
to  them  in  return;  yet  that  is  not  their  main 
object,  for  I  have  seen  a  number  of  instances 
in  which  a  return  was  out  of  the  question, 
where  povei'ty  would  not  admit  of  it,  or  dis- 
tance of  abode  put  it  out  of  the  power  of  the 
visiter  to  return  the  same  civilities  to  his  host: 
when  white  people  are  treated  in  tliis  way, 
witii  the  best  entertainment  the  house  affords, 
they  may  be  sure   it  is  nothing  else    than   a 

•These  Dutchmen  were  probably  acquainted  with 
what  is  related  of  Qneen  Dido  in  ancient  history,  and 
thus  turned  their  classical  knowledg;e  to  a  good  account 


mark  of  respect  paid  to  them,  and  that  the 
attentions  they  receive  do  not  proceed  from 
any  interested  view. 

LITERARY  NOTICE. 

Mr.  Edward  Robinson,  Assistant  Instructor 
in  the  department  of  Sacred  Literature  in 
the  Theological  Seminary  at  Andover,  is  now 
engaged  in  translating  the  Latin  and  German 
in  VVahls  Lexicon  of  the  New  Testament,  in- 
to English;  so  as  to  be  able  to  publish,  during 
the  next  autumn,  a  Greek  and  English  Lexi- 
con of  the  New  Testament,  which  shall  be  a 
suitable  companion  for  the  Hebrew  Lexicon 
of  Gesenius, translated  by  Mr.  Willard  Gibbs, 
and  about  to  be  issued  from  the  press  at  An- 
dover. The  Lexicon  translated  and  edited 
by  Mr.  Robinson,  is  expected  to  contain  not 
more  than  800  pages,  while  the  Leipsic  edi- 
tion of  Schleusner's  Lexicon  comprises  more 
than  2700  pages.  Professor  Stuart  recom- 
mends this  work  as  a  higher  specimen  of  acute 
and  distinguishing  lexicography,  than  any  of 
the  same  class,  with  which  he  is  acquainted. 

apprentices'  libraries. 
The  plan  of  establishing  Libraries  for  tiie 
benefit  of  apprentices  is  of  recent  origin. 
The  first  libraries  of  the  kind  were  opened  in 
New  York  and  Boston,  in  18'iO.  The  follow- 
ing is  a  list  of  the  libraries  established,  and  of 
the  number  of  volumes  in  each  library,  ac- 
cording to  the  New  York  Observer. 

Libraries.      No.  of  Vols. 
Goiham,  N.  Y.  200 

Newark,  N.  J.  7,50 

Elizabethtow  n,  N.  J.     750 
Jei-sey  City,  N.  J.  150 

Philadelphia,  Pa.        4,000 
Lancaster,  Pa.  1,000 

Baltimore,  Md.  2,000 

Cincinnati,  Ohio,        1,500 

The  number  of  mechanic  apprentices  in  Phi- 
ladelphia is  said  to  be  14,000.  The  number 
in  New  York  City  is  11,000. 


american  ISoara  of  iForcisn  ^i^mm. 

Since  the  preceding  sheets  went  to  the  press, 
we  have  received  a  copious  journal  from 
Messrs.  Fisk  and  King,  together  with  several 
letters  from  them,  and  from  the  missionaries 
at  .Malta.  We  shall  here  insert  extracts 
from  some  of  the  letters. 

Letter  from  the  JMissionaries  at  Malta. 
Malta,  Oct.  13, 1823. 

Dear  Sir, — Agreeably  to  your  exhortations, 
we  have  endeavored  to  push  forward  the  busi- 
ness of  the  Press  as  fast  as  possible;  and  all 
the  information  that  has  come  to  us  ft  om  dif- 


Libraries.        No.  of  Vols. 

Portland,  Me. 

1,000 

Portsmouth,  N.  H. 

750 

Saleni,  Mass. 

1,000 

Boston,  Mass. 

2,500 

New  York,  N.  Y. 

5,600 

BrookK-n,  N.  Y. 

Albany,  N.  Y. 

1,800 

Canandagua,  N.  Y. 

250 

1824. 


Letters  fro7n  Malta  and  Faleatme. 


ditioit- 

Lang,  Pages. 

2000 

Greek. 

119 

500 

do. 

32 

lUOO 

do. 

22 

iOO 

do. 

70 

500 

do. 

72 

1000 

do. 

43 

1000 

do. 

20 

1000 

do. 

14 

1000 

do. 

28 

lOOU 

do. 

16 

1000  pages  do. 

87 

1000  do. 

do. 

73 

500  do. 

do. 

45 

1000  do. 

Italian. 

78 

500  do. 

do. 

32 

500  do. 

do. 

16 

500  do. 

do. 

12 

ferent  quarters,  has  contributed  to  augment 
our  hopes  concerning  the  extensive  anil  per- 
manenl  utility  of  this  prinliiig  establishment. 
Among  Roman  Catholics,  our  tracts  are  not 
likely,  at  present,  to  find  a  very  extensive  cir- 
culation; but  even  here,  the  field  is  not  so 
limited  as  it  once  was:  but  among  the  Greeks, 
the  field  is  as  wide  as  their  nation,  and  we  are 
not  aware  that  any  obstacle  of  magnitude  lits 
in  the  way  of  circulating  among  them  as  many 
tracts  as  we  please.  It  will  probalily  be  inter- 
esting to  you  to  know  what  tracts  we  have 
printed,  and  for  your  information  w  e  send  the 
following  list. 

Tracts.  i 

DairjTnan's  Daiigliter,  2d  ed. 
Negro  Ser^-ant, 
Payson's  Address  to  Mai-iners, 
Short  Prayers  for  every  day  in 

llie  week, 
A  Tract  on  Redemption,  by 

Dr.  Naudi, 
Sixteen  Short  Sennons, 
Progress  of  Sin, 
The  Traveller  and  Yourself, 
Life  and  MartjTdoni  of  John 

Baptist, 
On  Eternity,  2d  ed. 
The  Young  Cottager,  an  ed.  of 
i'he  Shepherd  of  Salisbuiy 

Plain, 
AVilliiun  Kelly. 
Dairyman's  Daughter, 
William  Kelly, 
Progress  of  Siii, 
Traveller  and  Yourself, 
Pavson's  Address  to  Manners, 

2"d  ed.  JOG  do.    do.  16 

We  have  now  in  the  Press  a  Spelling-Book 
in  Greek;  which  will  make  a  volume  of  about 
160  pages  of  the  same  size  as  the  tracts  we 
have  sent  you.  This  Spelling-Book  we  are 
printing  for  the  Kev.  S.  S.  Wilson,  of  the 
London  Missionary  Society,  for  which  he  is 
to  pay  us  the  prime  cost.  The  edition  is  1000, 
of  which  we  take  200.  The  work  was  com- 
piled b)'  Mr.  W.,  and  in  our  opinion  is  well 
adapted  to  promote  the  intei'ests  of  the 
Greeks.  We  hope  tlie  Board  will  approve  of 
this  step. 

From  the  following  paragraph  it  appears, 
that  two  of  the  brethren  expected  soon  to 
leave  Malta  for  Palestine.     From  all  that  has 
come  to  the   knowledge  of  the  Committee,  I 
this  resolution  seems  to  have  been  wisely  ta-  ; 
ken.  j 

From  the  favorable  representations  of  .Mr.  ' 
Fisk,  from  Jerusalem  and  Mount   Lebanon,  I 
we  have  been  induced  lo  believe  that  a  family  \ 
may  reside  in  either  of  those  places  with  lit- 
tle hazai'd;  Mr.  and  Airs.  Bird  with  their  lit- 
tie  son,  and    Mr.    and  .VIrs.   Goodell,   intend,  : 
therefore,  to  embrace  the  first  opportunity  to  j 
embark  either  for  Jafia  or  Beirout,  ho,iiiijj;  to 
meet   Mr.   Fisk,  or  find   letters  there   from 
him,  from  which  they  may  learn  which  is,  on 
the  whole,  the  more  eligible  situation  at  pres- 
ent—  .Mount  Lebanon,  or  .Jerusalem.      '^  e  all 
feel  that  it  is  desirable  to  be  in   Palestine   as 
early  as  possible  with  any  reasonable  pro!=pect 
of  safety.     Mr.  Fisk  expresses  a  wish  to  see 
us  there,  and  a  conviction  that  we  mny  be  safe 
■^ith  a  family. 


Letters  Jrom  Palestine. 

We  have  already  mentioned  the  arrival  oi 
Messrs.  Fisk  and  King  at  Jerusalem,  near 
the  last  of  April.  'I'hcy  continued  in  that 
city  and  its  viicinity  till  the  27th  of  June,  wlien 
they  left  the  city  for  a  lemporai'y  residence 
on  Mount  Lebanon.  Mr.  Wolft' remained  at 
Jerusalem.  At  Saide  [Zidon]  they  had  the 
happiness  of  meeting  with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Lewis, 
a  missionary  from  the  London  Jews' Society . 
lie  came  out  with  the  Kev.  Lewis  Way,  whose 
kindness  our  missionaries  gratefully  acknowl- 
edge. On  the  10th  of  July,  they  arrived  at 
Beirout,  at  the  foot  of  Mount  Leb;inon.  Mr. 
Fisk  resided  at  the  latest  date,  (Aug.  21,)  at 
Antoora,on  Mount  Lebanon,  in  a  house, which 
was  formerly  a  college  for  Jesuits,  but  was 
hired  by  Mr.  Way  for  a  ,Missio7i  House,  and 
devoted  to  the  use  of  such  missionaries  as 
might  come  to  Palestine.  Mr.  King  was  in 
a  family  at  Der  el  Kamer. 

The  following  are  brief  notices  from  two 
letters  of  Mr.  King,  one  to  S.  V.  S  Wilder, 
Esq.,  the  other  to  Mrs.  W.j  who,  it  will  be 
remembered,  were  generous  patrons  of  Mr. 
King,  while  he  was  at  Paris.  The  letter  to 
Mr.  W.  is  dated,  JMoiir.t  Calvary,  May  7, 
1823. 

How  shall  I  express  to  you  the  emotions  I 
now  feel  within  my  bosom!  The  hour  is  come, 
about  which  we  so  often  conversed  in  the  gar- 
den of  Nauterre,  and  in  the  little  consecrated 
room  at  Paris.  My  feet  now  stand  on  that 
awful  hill,  where  our  dear  Lord  and  Savior 
poured  out  his  soul  unto  death,  and  finished 
the  work  of  man's  redemption!  Hcic  the  arms 
of  everlasting  love  were  extended  on  the 
cross,  and  here  the  meek  and  letider  heart 
of  the  Soi\  of  God  was  pierced  with  a  spear! 
Here  flowed  that  precious  blood  in  which 
our  polluted  souls  must  be  cleansed,  or  be  lost 
forever! 

I  suffered  much  in  the  wilderness  fiom 
scorching  winds,  which  were  sometimes  in- 
deed dreadful  to  bear,  and  also  from  want  of 
pure  water.  All  this,  however,  1,  as  it  were, 
forgot,  the  moment  my  feet  entered  within 
the  limits  of  Canaan.  Thtis  will  the  soul  re- 
deemed from  sin,  forget  all  the  trials  of  its 
earthly  pilgrimage,  as  soon  as  it  enters  the 
heavenly  Canaan. 

I  arrived  here  with  my  dear  brethren, 
Messrs  Fisk  aiid  Wolff,  ju't  one  week  before 
the  |)assover,  which  wc  celebrated  together 
on  the  anniversary  of  that  sorrowful  right, 
when  our  Lord  was  betrayeil  ii/io  the  hands 
of  sinners,  and  when  he  agoiiizcd  in  the  gar- 
den of  Gethsemaiie. 

We  partook  of  the  sacrnnient,  in  a  little 
upper  room,  on  Mount  (Jalvary,  where  I 
lodge.  Some  of  the  bica;l  and  wine,  whicli 
you  prtsonted  me  on  parting  at  Paris,  and 
which  I   had    preserved  tdl   my  arrival   here, 


Greek  Youths. ^....Journey  of  the  Corresponding  Secretary. 


■we  used  as  the  emblems  of  that  body  which 
•was  broken,  and  thai  blood  which  was  shed, 
tor  the  remission  of  sins. 

Last  Monday  we  kept  our  first  iSIonthly 
Concert  of  Pi'j»yei',  on  ihe  Mount  of  Olives, 
after  which  we  went  down  to  Bethany. 

From  the  letter  to  .Sirs.  W.  we  can  make 
only  one  extract. 

Of  all  the  places  I  have  visited,  Gethsemane 
and  the  VJountof  Olives,  Bethlehem  and  ihe 
field  of  the  Shephtriis,  Zion  and  tlie  watt^is 
of  Siloah  delight  me  most.  I  would,  also, 
add  Beth:i;iy,  the  town  of  Martha,  iMa- 
ry.  and  LszarUs,  whom  J^-sus  loved,  and 
whoru  he  used  to  visit. 

The  sun  shmes  brightl}  on  the  .Mount  of 
Olives,  which  lies  befoi-e  me,  and  the  swal- 
lows are  flitting  aior'g  by  my  wi,;dows;  but 
alas!  the  beautiful  place  where  ihey  used  to 
build  their  nests  is  now  destroyed — ''Even 
thine  altars,  O  Lord  of  hosts,  ray  King  and 
Biy  God." 


GREEK  TOUTHS. 

OcR  readers  are  aware,  that,  early  in  the  last 
spring,  two  Greek  youths  arrived  in  this 
country,  sent  out  by  their  friends,  at  the  re- 
commendation of  Mr.  Fisk,  to  the  care  and 
patronage  of  the  American  Board  of  Foreign 
f  Missions.  The  names  of  these  youths  were 
Photius  Knvasales  and  .AnastasUts  Kara- 
•veUes. — We  inadvertently  omitted  to  state  in 
our  last  numbers,  that,  near  the  close  of  Oc- 
tober, two  other  Greek  youths,  of  promising 
appearance,  arrived  at  Boston,  consigned,  by 
the  missionaries  at  Malta,  to  the  same  care 
and  patronage.  Mr.  Temple  speaks  thus  in 
regard  to  them: 

The  names  of  these  youths  are  Stephano 
and  Pandoleon  Galati;  the  former  in  his  six- 
teen', h  and  the  latter  in  his  twelfth  year. 
They  have  both  attended  our  Sabl>ath-school 
for  four  or  five  months,  and  have  conducted 
themselves  in  all  respects  very  much  to  our 
satisfaction.  They  belong  to  a  very  respectable 
family,  which,  like  almost  ever  other  family  of 
Scio,  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  all  its  ])osses- 
sions  on  that  beautiful  island,  when  the  Turks 
made  it  adeso'ation.  These  lads,  with  a  young- 
er brother,  their  mother,  and  a  few  of  their 
neighbors,  flevl  from  the  city  of  Scio,  when 
the  Turks  came,  and  hid  themselves,  for  sev- 
eral days  in  an  old  monastery  in  the  moun- 
tains, where  with  scarcely  food  enough  for 
their  subsistence,  they  remained  until  they 
found  means  of  getting  on  board  a  small  Greek 
vessel,  which  accidentally  touched  at  that  part 
of  the  island,  and  carried  them  to  the  Morea. 
Thence,  not  without  much  difficulty,  thoy 
succeeded  in  reaching  .Malta.  The  father  of 
the  lads  is  now  in  the  Morea.  They  are 
much  more  favored  than  many  others  of  tbeir 
countrymen,  as  their  maternal  unole  is  a  mer- 
chant of  considerable  wealth,  and  had  none  of 


his  property  on  the  island  of  Scio.  He  has  a 
handsome  establishment  in  Malta,  but  has 
several  sisters  who  are  dependent  on  him  tor 
a  support.  He  defrays  the  expense  of  the 
outfit  and  passage  of  these  his  nephews.  We 
think  these  lads  of  much  promise,  and  ear- 
nestly desire  that  ihey  may  enjoy  all  the  best 
means  our  country  affords,  for  securing  a 
thoi'ougli  education. 

These  youths  left  Boston,  in  company  with 
the  Corresponding  Secretary,  on  the  11th 
ult ,  and  will  probably  lake  up  their  residence, 
for  th»  present,  at  New-Haven,  Con.,  where 
they  have  been  joined  by  their  Cwo  young 
countrymen  first  named. 

At  the  present  time,  when  through  our 
community  so  much  sympathy  is  manifested 
for  the  Greeks;  when,  in  their  behalf,  meet- 
ings are  held,  addresses  made,  resolutions 
passed,  and  funds  procured;  it  is  confidently 
expected,  that  these  young  sons  of  Greece, 
who  have  been  sent  to  our  shores  for  qual- 
ifications to  exert,  in  future  years,  a  strong 
regenerating  influence  upon  the  ciril,  literary 
and  moral  character  of  the  interesting  peo- 
ple to  which  they  belong,  will  not  fail  of  re- 
ceiving the  most  efficient  support.  It  is  pleas- 
ing to  think  of  the  mutual  acquaintance  and 
free  intercourse,  which  may  arise  betweea 
this  country,  Palestine,  and  Greece. 

JOUHNET  or  THE  COHRESPOXBING  SECRETARr. 

It  has,  for  several  months,  been  the  deter- 
mination of  the  Prudential  Committee  to 
send  one  of  their  number,  if  practicable,  to 
visit  the  raissiooary  stations  in  the  Indian 
country,  during  the  present  winter  and  the 
ensuing  spring.  They  have  supposed,  that 
experience  indicates  some  change  to  be  expe- 
dient, in  the  present  mode  of  conducting  these 
missions;  and  that,  as  one  improvement,  it 
will  be  best  to  reduce  the  larger  establish- 
ments, and  multiply  the  smaller  ones  To 
execute  this  design,  and  to  confer  with  the 
missionaries  and  the  natives  on  various  sub- 
jects relating  to  the  success  of  missions,  the 
Committee  have  deputed  the  Coiresponding 

I  Secretary.  On  the  11th  ult.  he  commenced 
a  journey  to  discharge  this  important  agency, 

I  which  will  probably  occupy  at  least  six  months. 

j  In  the  course  of  his  journey,  he  will  endeavor 

j  to  promote  the  interests  of  the  Board,  espe- 
cially  in  the  principal  cities  in  the   United 

I  States. 

I      Communications  designed  for  the  Pruden- 

)  tial  Committee,  should  be  directed  as  hereto- 

I  fore. 


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